Common Causes of Pinched Nerves. The most common forms of nerve compression are in the spinal joints where either a disc bulge or a bony arthritic spur can irritate and compress the nerve. Compressions can also occur as the nerve passes through or around muscles. Your physiotherapist will know where to look.
Muscle fibers are in turn composed of myofibrils. The myofibrils are composed of actin and myosin filaments, repeated in units called sarcomeres, the basic functional units of the muscle fiber.The sarcomere is responsible for the striated appearance of skeletal muscle, and forms the basic machinery necessary for muscle contraction.n addition to the actin and myosin components that constitute the sarcomere, skeletal muscle fibers also contain two other important regulatory proteins, troponin and tropomyosin, that are necessary for muscle contraction to occur.
The sarcomere is the functional or contractile unit of muscle. To recap, a whole muscle if made up of many smaller bundles known as fascicles. Each fascicle is made up of many muscle cells (myofibers). Myofibers contain cylindrical bundles of myofibrils which in turn contain many smaller bundles of myofilaments.