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How Muscle Pain Is Signaled? Monday, July 19, 2010 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Chronic muscular pain may be linked to a previously unknown principle for how pain signals are transmitted in the human body. Muscles have sensory organs called muscle spindles. Their task is to inform the brain of changes in muscle length. Muscle spindles therefore contain a special type of large diameter nerve filaments that signal stretch of the muscle. The Umeå scientists' studies show that muscle spindles also contain fine nerve filaments with pain receptors. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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