ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2018
Distributed force feedback in the spinal cord and the regulation of limb mechanics.
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- Mechanosensory encoding of forces in walking uphill and downhill: force feedback can stabilize leg movements in stick insects.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Knee movements cause changes in the firing behaviour of muscle spindles located within the mono-articular ankle extensor soleus in the rat.Experimental physiology · 2024Article
- Inhibition of knee joint sensory afferents alters covariation across strides between quadriceps muscles during locomotion.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023Article
- Differential effect of heteronymous feedback from femoral nerve and quadriceps muscle stimulation onto soleus H-reflex.PloS one · 2023Article
- Temporal dynamics of the sensorimotor convergence underlying voluntary limb movement.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Voluntary suppression of neck reflexes during passive head-on-trunk rotations: reflex gain control versus proprioceptive feedback.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Detection of epimuscular myofascial forces by Golgi tendon organs.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Emergence of Extreme Paw Accelerations During Cat Paw Shaking: Interactions of Spinal Central Pattern Generator, Hindlimb Mechanics and Muscle Length-Depended Feedback.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Article
- Control of Mammalian Locomotion by Somatosensory Feedback.Comprehensive Physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
This review is an update on the role of force feedback from Golgi tendon organs in the regulation of limb mechanics during voluntary movement. Current ideas about the role of force feedback are based on modular circuits linking idealized systems of agonists, synergists, and antagonistic muscles. In contrast, force feedback is widely distributed across the muscles of a limb and cannot be understood based on these circuit motifs. Similarly, muscle architecture cannot be understood in terms of idealized systems, since muscles cross multiple joints and axes of rotation and further influence remote joints through inertial coupling. It is hypothesized that distributed force feedback better represents the complex mechanical interactions of muscles, including the stresses in the musculoskeletal network born by muscle articulations, myofascial force transmission, and inertial coupling. Together with the strains of muscle fascicles measured by length feedback from muscle spindle receptors, this integrated proprioceptive feedback represents the mechanical state of the musculoskeletal system. Within the spinal cord, force feedback has excitatory and inhibitory components that coexist in various combinations based on motor task and integrated with length feedback at the premotoneuronal and motoneuronal levels. It is concluded that, in agreement with other investigators, autogenic, excitatory force feedback contributes to propulsion and weight support. It is further concluded that coexistent inhibitory force feedback, together with length feedback, functions to manage interjoint coordination and the mechanical properties of the limb in the face of destabilizing inertial forces and positive force feedback, as required by the accelerations and changing directions of both predator and prey.
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