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GUEST SERIES | Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals
Huberman Lab
How Does a Swelling Response Work?
The classic gait theory of pain, which people will be familiar with and then I'll explain why I'm explaining this. So if you remember how muscles work, so we have to have some sort of signal from the nervous system that has to actually tell the muscle to contract. The way that they work is through gamma motor neurons and so these are sensory things. What's happening is unlike when you tell your muscle to contract, it goes alpha to the muscle contract. These muscle spindles work so that it is, oh, I've been stretched,. send signal back to some central point typically in the spinal cord. We don't actually want to go all the way up the brain.
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