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Contractions are even rarer in the Diary but do occur, for example in his entry for September 9, 1667: “Says that Knepp won't take pains enough.
For this reason, the length-tension relation is more clearly defined in these experiments than in the staircase experiments, for which twitch contractions were obtained at a given length prior to and after repetitive stimulation at that sarcomere length.
Sustained muscular contractions externally associated with not being able to maintain a certain force lead to physiological fatigue, tremor or pain, localized in the specific muscle (localized muscular fatigue).
In all cases, the force was not decreased when compared to previous contractions recorded at this same reference length, indicating that fatigue or damage did not occur in these experiments.
In studying posttetanic potentiation, the length tension relation for twitch contractions was obtained with sequential contractions at different lengths, both prior to and after a tetanic contraction at optimal length.