How do muscle spindles protect muscles from injury during stretching?

What will be an ideal response?


If muscle spindles are overstretched or stretched too fast, the spindles send messages to the central nervous system, and through a feedback loop, motor neurons are activated and cause muscle contraction to resist muscle stretch. This is called the stretch reflex.

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