Talk:Tendon reflex

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"Tendon reflex (or T-reflex) is an involuntary muscle contraction after one of its tendons is hit.

The sensory receptors responsible for the reflex are actually located not in the tendon but rather in the muscle itself. These are muscle spindles which are sensitive to muscle stretch. Afferent discharges from muscle spindles enter the spinal cord through the sensory nerve root and monosynaptically excite motoneurons, which in turn activate the muscle. The knee-jerk reflex and the Achilles reflex are examples of tendon reflex."

this is false. The sensory receptor that detects change in tension is the golgi tendon which lie within tendon. It causes the muscle to relax in stead of contract in order to DECREASE tension in the tendons, a negative feedback arc. Another motor neuron to it's antagonistic muscle is stimulated, causing it to contract. The muscle spindles are responsible for STRETCH REFLEX and not tendon reflex.

Let's see what external sources say. Mikael Häggström (talk) 20:28, 20 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

@Mikael Haggstrom: I noticed that spinal reflex redirects to tendon reflex. Are these phrases synonymous, and is it true that the withdrawal reflex is a tendon reflex? Jarble (talk) 20:29, 7 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

wtf kind of grammar is this??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? "The Golgi tendon reflex, motivated by that the sensory receptors for this reflex are anatomically located in the tendon, while the sensory receptors for the stretch reflex are actually inside the proper muscle."

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