What creates muscle tone, anyway?

Not for the timid, here is an excellent , free, full text article on spasticity. More importantly, it is an excellent review on what creates muscle tone and how it is maintained, starting and the spindle and moving centrally.  Think about this the next time you have a patient with mm spasm and you can se things in a whole new light

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009478/