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Somatic Spinal Reflexes

Somatic Spinal Reflexes

Somatic spinal reflexes are rapid, involuntary muscular responses to external stimuli that involve the somatic musculature and the spinal cord.
One of the most well-known somatic spinal reflexes is the stretch reflex, which is activated by the sudden stretching of a muscle. This reflex involves the activation of specialized sensory receptors called muscle spindles, which are located in the muscle tissue and detect changes in the length and speed of muscle contractions. When a muscle is suddenly...

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Murine Flexor Tendon Injury and Repair Surgery

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Published on: September 19, 2016

Flexor tendon rehabilitation

Marissa R Matarrese¹, Warren C Hammert

¹Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.

The Journal of Hand Surgery

|September 22, 2012

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