Recording of dorsal root/muscle reflexes was used to investigate reflex motor responses of symmetrical muscles in the thigh, calf, and foot evoked by transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the spinal nerve roots at vertebral levels T11-L3 in patients with lumbosacral radiculopathy on the background of vertebral osteochondrosis and in neurologically healthy subjects with normal movement regimes, healthy qualified sportsmen, and athletes with knee injuries. Subjects with neurological disorders and sportsmen with traumatic knee injuries showed similar signs of plasticity of the spinal nerve circuits innervating the lower limb muscles.
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Translated from Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 100, No. 4, pp. 487–502, April, 2014.
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Lanskaya, O.V., Andriyanova, E.Y. Electrophysiological Mechanisms of the Plasticity of the Spinal Systems in Musculoskeletal System Dysfunctions. Neurosci Behav Physi 45, 1010–1018 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-015-0180-y
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