Doing Push-Ups Often Puts Large Amounts of Pressure on Your

question 21

Multiple Choice

Doing push-ups often puts large amounts of pressure on your hand that you may not be used to feeling. In addition to holding your own body weight, your hands must sustain the force generated to push your body up from the ground, which compressed and stretches the skin. Which receptors are detecting this increased amount of pressure?

• A) Ruffini corpuscles only
• B) Merkel discs and Ruffini corpuscles
• C) Merkel discs only
• D) Meissner corpuscles

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