To all:
The other day, I was thinking back to the days of been an undergraduate
student, and I was going through my notes on Maitland's mobilisation.
Something strange appeared on the page that I was not aware of earlier, and
that was the issue of muscle contractures. From what I know, Maitland's
texts tends to believe that muscle spasm is a result of a "reflex response
to pain provoked by movement" or is related to "what is wrong with the joint
rather than being directly related to a pain response." The former seemed to
me to be contradictory to what I know, which is that pain tends to INHIBIT
muscle contraction, but according to Maitland, if you have pain, you should
have muscles contraction. Can anybody clears this up for me please??
Henry***
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