Difficulties Faced in Standardized Receptor Stimulation and in Standardized Analysis of Muscle Responses to a Stimulus

This presentation will cover the methods used to investigate neuronal circuitries between peripheral receptors and skeletal muscles in human subjects. There are a number of problems regarding reflex studies using experimental animals. There are also problems in the recording and analysis aspects of these experiments. To overcome these problems we have utilized precisely-controlled mechanical or electrical stimuli to activate receptors and single motor units from human muscles. We also used classical and novel methods to analyze the results to indicate neuronal networks.