Incomplete Tetanus

with incomplete tetanus, a new twitch "rides piggy-back" on the previous one, generating

higher tension

the stimuli arriving close together produces a state of sustained fluttering contraction called

incomplete tetanus

incomplete tetanus is produced by

20-40 stimuli per second

wave summation

results from one wave of contraction added to another

temporal summation

results from two stimuli arriving close together

with wave summation, each twitch reaches

a higher level of tension than the one before

with incomplete tetanus, in between stimuli, the muscle relaxes

only partially

incomplete tetanus happens when each new stimulus arrives before

the previous twitch is over