A Clinical Lecture ON MUSCLE-TONUS, TONIC RIGIDITY, AND TONIC FITS

Muscle Spindles in Phasic and Tonic Muscle.

Comparisons were made of muscle spindle structure between phasic and tonic muscles stained by the gold chloride method. The most significant difference was in the ring diameter of the sensory nerve terminals wrapped around the nuclear bags. In tibialis anterior it was largest, in gastrocnemius intermediate, and in soleus smallest. This order corresponds to the contraction time, tibialis anterio...

Patterns of muscle activation during generalized tonic and tonic-clonic epileptic seizures.

PURPOSE Tonic seizures and the tonic phase of tonic-clonic epileptic seizures are defined as "sustained tonic" muscle contraction lasting a few seconds to minutes. Visual inspection of the surface electromyogram (EMG) during seizures contributed considerably to a better understanding and accurate diagnosis of several seizure types. However, quantitative analysis of the surface EMG during the ep...

The Tonic Pupil Syndrome.

Liver Tonic / Hepatoprotectives

Beyond the treatment of liver disorders, everyday care of the liver lays a cornerstone for total body health. Naturopaths and others, who look beneath the symptoms of an illness to its underlying cause, often discover that the liver has had a role to play. More than 500 vital functions have been identified with the liver. The liver is important because a person’s nutritional level is not only d...

Development of tonic firing behavior in rat soleus muscle.

Tonic firing behavior in soleus muscle of unrestrained rats aged 7 to >or=100 days was studied by chronic single-motor-unit and gross-electromyographic (EMG) recordings. Median motor-unit firing frequency at 10 days was 19-26 Hz and did not change appreciably after this time, whereas interval-to-interval firing variability was reduced with age. Two units with median frequencies 40 and 59 Hz wer...