Assertion: muscle fiber's muscle | /r/HasProperty | stretched
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text: When the muscle in contracted, the tendon is stretched and the receptors are compressed in a web of connective tissue.
text: The muscle is strained either because it is not properly stretched, or warmed up, before the activity; it is too weak; or because the muscle is already injured and not allowed time to recover.
text: The ends of the intrafusal muscle fibers are attached to myofibrils so that when the muscle is stretched, the muscle spindle fibers stretch as well.
text: The overlap of actin and myosin gives rise to the length-tension curve, which shows how sarcomere force output decreases if the muscle is stretched so that fewer cross-bridges can form or compressed until actin filaments interfere with each other.
text: The reverse holds true for when the muscle is stretched – force increases above isometric maximum, until finally reaching an absolute maximum.
text: When a muscle is stretched, sensory neurons within the muscle spindle detect the degree of stretch and send a signal to the CNS.
text: It also aids in preventing overstretching of the thick filament, recoiling like a spring whenever a muscle is stretched.
text: This means that as the muscle of a hollow organ is stretched when it fills, the mechanical stress of the stretching will trigger contraction, but this is immediately followed by relaxation so that the organ does not empty its contents prematurely.
text: When muscle is stretched, an H-band appears along the middle of the A-band, between the free ends of the thin filaments.
text: When a muscle is strained, it hurts and is difficult to move.