Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Extensor mechanism disruption, either from tendon rupture or patellar fracture, is uncommon — typically ...

Overuse of our tendons can cause painful medical conditions for which only limited treatment options exist. Researchers have ...

Reflexes are automatic and involuntary actions the body produces in response to certain stimuli. While some reflexes can involve muscles and movement, others involve internal processes within the body ...

Autogenic inhibition is a neuromuscular reflex that results in a reduction in muscle activity following an excessive or sustained increase in tension and stimulation of Golgi tendon organs (GTO). If ...

Electromyographic study in complete and incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Tendon taps were delivered manually with an instrumented hammer to the tendons of the tibialis anterior and soleus muscle ...

Brisk reflexes refer to an above-average response during a reflex test. During a reflex test, your doctor tests your deep tendon reflexes with a reflex hammer to measure your response. This test is ...

image: Prayag Murawala, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has received a $332,000 grant to study tendon injury. He is seeking to determine if the same cellular and ...