Background context: Despite clinical evidence for the benefits of spinal maniputation and the
apparent wide usage of it, the biological mechanisms underlying the effects of spinal …

The term thixotropy comes from the Greek words' thixis' meaning touch and'tropos' meaning
transformation. It is applied to substances which change their physical properties as a result …

Rehabilitation Techniques for Sports Medicine and Athletic Training, Seventh Edition is the
definitive reference for athletic training students and professionals who are interested in …

1. The objective of the study was to evaluate the functional effects of reflexes on muscle
mechanics during natural voluntary movements. The excitability of the H (Hoffmann) reflex …

GUISSARD, N., and J. DUCHATEAU. Neural aspects of muscle stretching. Exerc. Sport Sci.
Rev., Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 154Y158, 2006. Neural mechanisms contribute significantly to the …

Study Design. This study evaluated the effect of lumbosacral spinal manipulation with thrust
and spinal mobilization without thrust on the excitability of the alpha motoneuronal pool in …

A fundamental challenge for the nervous system is to encode signals spanning many orders
of magnitude with neurons of limited bandwidth. To meet this challenge, perceptual systems …

Previously, data on the effects of muscle fatigue on joint position sense (JPS) have been
provided. However, to our knowledge, no studies have been conducted so far to assess the …

Morita, H., N. Petersen, LOD Christensen, T. Sinkjær, and J. Nielsen. Sensitivity of H-reflexes
and stretch reflexes to presynaptic inhibition in humans. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 610–620 …

When a muscle relaxes after a contraction, cross-bridges between actin and myosin in
sarcomeres detach, but about 1% spontaneously form new, non-force-generating …