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Bothtranscorticaland spinal group II pathways could contribute to the M2 response in proximal upper limb muscles purchase crestor 20 mg mastercard, such as Running, hopping and landing the biceps brachii. Duringthestancephaseofrunningandhoppingand after the impact of landing, the short-latency spinal Heteronymous monosynaptic Ia excitation stretch reflex of the triceps surae is superimposed on pre-programmed activity and contributes to the There are little experimental data on the functional musclecontractionresponsibleforthepushingoffof role of heteronymous Ia connections. However, the Resume´ ´ 105 different organisation of these connections in the and tibialis anterior when leaning backward). On cat and baboon hindlimb and the human lower theotherhand,diffuseIaconnectionscouldbecome limb suggests that the connections are functionally functionally inconvenient, because the activation of important, having adapted to provide the particular Ia afferentsfromacontractingmusclemightresultin reflex assistance required in each species. Suppressionofunwantedheterony- mousIadischargescanbeachievedthroughfocused Weak connections between ankle extensors corticospinal control of presynaptic inhibition of The weakness of the connections between ankle Ia terminals and of recurrent inhibition. The need extensors in human subjects may be related to the for this control suggests that the heteronymous Ia role of triceps surae in walking: it resists and brakes discharge does play a functional role, because it the passive ankle dorsiflexion produced by extrinsic must be suppressed in tasks for which it is not forces (kinetic force and gravity), but must be over- required. It would then be undesirable to have exces- Upper limb sive activity from the triceps surae stretch reflex, and weak Ia connections between the different heads of The diffuse distribution of the Ia projections from the muscle would help ensure this. Some of these connec- Studies in patients and tions are weak, but their strength has been under- clinical implications estimated in experimental studies and, in any case, this would not prevent them from modulating the In practice, assessing Ia connectivity involves meas- excitability of motoneurones that are already depo- urements of the H reflex. During the stance phase of running, hop- advantages of doing so during voluntary contrac- ping and landing, all extensors undergo a lengthen- tions (see above). Modulation of the on-going EMG ingcontractionthatevokesastrongIadischarge,and by a heteronymous volley may allow access to a it is probable that the extensive Ia connections link- motoneuronepoolbyafferentinputsthatdonottra- ing muscles across joints modulate the role played verse the same nerve or nerve root as homonymous by the different muscles in load compensation. Projections onto antagonists operating Peripheral neuropathies, mononeuropathies at another joint and nerve lesions Theseprojectionsaredesirablefunctionallybecause These may be accompanied by a decrease in the of the versatile synergisms required to accomplish amplitude and an increase in the latency of the the various tasks of the human lower limb (e. Reflex depression usually results from an co-contraction of quadriceps and gastrocnemius- afferent abnormality and will occur when there is soleus in running and hopping, but of quadriceps either a loss of conducting afferents or dispersion of 106 Monosynaptic Ia excitation the afferent volley. Tests of reflex function provide a sion is markedly attenuated, probably because the tooltodistinguishbetweenisolatedperipheralnerve enhanced Ia firing during voluntary contraction lesions and lesions involving roots or plexus. Spasticity The ratio Hmax/Mmax is, on average, increased in soleus but not, or hardly so, in FCR in hemiplegics. Post-activation depression in spastic patients Whether measured as the depression induced by passive stretch of the test muscle or by high stimu- Post-activation depression at the lus rate, post-activation depression is significantly Ia-motoneurone synapse decreased in spastic patients due to spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis, and on the affected Background from animal experiments side of patients with hemiplegia.