Reply to the Letter to the Editor concerning the article: ‘The stretch–shortening cycle effect is not associated with cortical or spinal excitability modulations’

30 Oktober 2025

Hahn, D., Seiberl, W., Siebert, T. and Raiteri, B.J. (2025), Reply to the Letter to the Editor concerning the article: ‘https://doi.org/10.1113/JP290075’. J Physiol. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP290104

 

This is our reply to the Letter to the Editor of Taube et al. (2025) concerning our Paper The stretch–shortening cycle effect is not associated with cortical or spinal excitability modulations (Rissmann et al., 2025).

"We thank Taube et al. (2025) for their interest in our article and for their critical insights into our findings (Rissmann et al., 2025). Our main finding was that the stretch–shortening cycle (SSC) effect was not associated with cortical or spinal excitability modulations, and the main criticism of Taube et al. (2025) was that this main finding should not be generalised to all SSCs. This criticism appears misplaced as we never generalised our main finding to other SSCs and actually explicitly stated as part of our limitations that the ‘results are specific to our set-up’ and also ‘specific to the controlled dynamometer conditions used’ (Rissmann et al., 2025).

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seiberl

Professur für Bewegungswissenschaft