A natural law that describes how a muscle relaxes when the muscle opposing it contracts due to the reciprocal innervations of agonist and antagonist muscles in a reflex arc; also the term for a muscle energy technique that uses a contraction of
an agonist to enhance the relaxation and subsequent stretch of an antagonist.
Reciprocal inhibition
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