Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Stretch reflex

When a muscle is stretched, so is the muscle spindle ( the stretch proprioceptors), which send signals to the spine, where those signals trigger the stretch reflex (also called the myotatic reflex) which attempts to resist the change in muscle length by causing the muscle to contract.

It seems likely that in "non-doing", this mechanism is being used to our own advantage, if we "allow it to happen".

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