The `late' reflex responses to muscle stretch: the `resonance hypothesis' versus the `long-loop hypothesis'

AUTOR(ES)

Eklund, G.

RESUMO

1. Experiments were performed to check the validity of previous claims concerning the `long-loop' aetiology of `late' reflex electromyogram (e.m.g.) responses to muscle stretch in man. The primary aim was to investigate whether observations previously presented in favour of the `long-loop hypothesis' are explicable also in terms of the `resonance hypothesis', according to which the `late' reflex components represent spinal, short-latency responses to intramuscular oscillations initiated by the impact.

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