APA Dictionary of Psychology
stiffness
- n.
- inflexibility of the muscles and joints due to injury, dystonia, or over- or underuse.
- a characteristic, due to the springlike properties of muscles, that determines how the force exerted by a muscle varies as a function of its length for a fixed level of activation.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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