Brief view at Structure Function Mechanism Muscle spindle Brief view at Structure Function Mechanism
Structure Motorneurones … alpha & gamma Muscle Fibers … Extrafusal & Intrafusal Intrafusal … Nuclear bag & Nuclear chain Sensory … II group & Ia group Motor .. Static & Dynamic
Function Main function of Muscle spindle : Correction for changes in muscle length when extrafusal muscle fiber either shortens or lengths .
Sources Physiology & Anatomy ‘A homostatic approach’, John Clancy and Andrew J Mcvicar,1995 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_spindle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_motoneuron http://www.ualberta.ca/~aprochaz/research_spindle_intro.html http://www.ualberta.ca/~aprochaz/research_interactive_receptor_model.html