What Are Muscle Afferents

Muscle afferents are represented by axons of sensory neurons that reside within the spinal dorsal root ganglion. These pseudo-unipolar neurons transfer sensory information from muscles to the spinal cord via spinal nerves.

What is muscle spindles?

Functionally, muscle spindles are stretch detectors, i.e. they sense how much and how fast a muscle is lengthened or shortened [19]. Accordingly, when a muscle is stretched, this change in length is transmitted to the spindles and their intrafusal fibers which are subsequently similarly stretched.

What is a muscle receptors called?

Muscle spindles are stretch receptors within the body of a skeletal muscle that primarily detect changes in the length of the muscle. …