Tone Flashcards
resistance offered by muscles when passively lengthened “stiffness”
muscle tone
Diagnostic indicator of UMN problem
hypertonicity
UMN or LMN problem
Hypotonicity
Connective tissue capsuleintrafusal muscle fibersGamma motor axonsSensory axons
Muscle spindle
What fires the same time as the alpha motor neuron to contract the edges of the muscle spindle
gamma motor neuron
muscle spindles ending in central region of intrafusal fibers
Sensory axon
Types of sensory axons int he muscle spindles
Ia primaryII secondary
Sensitive to low amplitude, high velocity stretch inputsresult of activation is autogenic facilitation and reciprocal inhibition
Ia primary sensory ending
Sensitive to slow, sustained stretchactivation results less clear
II secondary sensory ending
Innervate intrafusal fibers (polar regions)Cell bodies in ventral horn of spinal cord (with alpha motor neuron)Not involved in stretch reflex pathway
Gamma motor neuron
Loss of normal alpha-gamma coactivationslack spindle, no input
hypotonia
a hypertonia condition that is velocity dependent and associated with hyperreflexia
Spasticity
Severe, constant hypertonia that is not velocity dependent
Rigidity
Alpha motor neurons are more sensitive to input due to net increase in excitatory synaptic input and or net decrease in inhibitory synaptic inputs
Neural causes of hypertonia
Immobilization has effect of changing visco-elastic propertiesChange in muscle fiber structure
Non neural causes of hypertonia
Types of tone
Clasp knifecog wheellead pipe
Most resistance at the beginning
clasp knife (swiss army knife)
Resistance throughout the range
Cog wheel