Vibration sensitivity of human muscle spindles and golgi tendon organs

• Published in: Muscle & nerve Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 21 - 29
• Main Authors: Fallon, James B., Macefield, Vaughan G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.07.2007; Wiley
• Subjects: Action Potentials - physiology; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Electromyography - methods; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Mechanoreceptors - physiology; microneurography; muscle afferents; Muscle Spindles - physiology; Physical Stimulation; proprioception; Sensory Thresholds - physiology; Somesthesis and somesthetic pathways (proprioception, exteroception, nociception); interoception; electrolocation. Sensory receptors; Striated muscle. Tendons; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; Vertebrates: osteoarticular system, musculoskeletal system; Vibration; Human; Vibration; Proprioception; Isometric muscular contraction; Sensory receptor; Toe; Muscle contraction; Ankle; Muscle spindle; Sensitivity; microneurography; Muscle; muscle afferents; Categorization; Biological receptor; Tendon

The responses of the various muscle receptors to vibration are more complicated than a naïve categorization into stretch (muscle spindle primary ending), length (muscle spindle secondary endings), and tension (Golgi tendon organs) receptors. To emphasize the similarity of responses to small length c...