Exploratorium:
Nice page on the topic, one cavil though:
Only muscle spindles, and perhaps golgi tendon organs
are really called stretch receptors, joint proprioceptors
(ruffini sprays) register distortion, and there is certainly
no stretching going in the inner ear!
John Coffin
American Society for the Alexander Technique
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