Snowboard cross and the story of tendon reflexesIn snowboard cross, the action doesn't end just because you've landed a jump.

Wilhelm Heinrich Erb of Bavaria, an internist interested in neurology, was a professor in Heidelberg, Germany. He is most known for writing about the importance of deep tendon reflexes to the ...

FOR many years clinicians have noted a correlation between the level of thyroid function and the speed of tendon reflexes. As early as 1924 Chaney, at the Mayo Clinic, attempted to quantitate the ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Decrease in Tendon Reflex' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

Tendon taps were delivered manually with an instrumented hammer to the tendons of the tibialis anterior and soleus muscle in positions of full-ankle dorsiflexion and plantarflexion in eight subjects ...

A CORRELATION between patients' metabolic states and the characteristics of their tendon reflexes has long been noted. This was quantified by Chaney 1 and later by Lambert et al., 2 who used a ...

Contract the muscle you want to stretch firmly for a few seconds, relax it, and then stretch it.This type of stretching is a ...

Pulling your hand away from a hot object, blinking because it's very bright or kicking when someone taps the tendon below your kneecap - these are all innate reflex actions. They happen rapidly, you ...

There are lots of things kids don’t like about doctor’s visits, with shots, blood tests and throat swabs topping the list. But one thing they love is having their knee reflexes checked. A reflex is an ...

You might have experienced the popular knee jerk in the doctors room or you may have heard of someone having an automatic 'knee-jerk response' to a situation without thinking. Strange, isn't it? Well, ...