A neurobiomechanical approach to understanding the control of tone and posture
- Muscle tone and muscle stiffness
- Three sources of muscle stiffness
- Stiffness as resistance to elongation, the spring analogy
- Soft tissue stiffness and the length-tension curve
- Stiffness and damping; Elasticity and viscosity
- Tissue stiffness influences posture
- "Stretch weakness" and "adaptive shortening"
- Equilibrium point between "agonist" and "antagonist"
- Implications for treatment
- Producing change in an equilibrium point
- Changes in equilibrium points are frequently short-lived