The most familiar reflex is straightening your knee when a healthcare provider taps on the tendon below your kneecap with a reflex hammer. A stimulus (the hammer) causes a signal to be sent via a ...

The best reflex hammer is heavy at the end and long enough so that a brisk tap can be delivered to the tendon. Pin-prick sensory testing and mapping of any sensory deficit can be done with a ...

Are reflexes different to reactions? Yes. An example of a reflex is when someone taps the knee (patella) tendon softly with a mallet. Your knee lurches forward and your brain has no control over its ...

1). A prominent side effect which often limits therapy with this drug is a dose-related peripheral neuropathy, presenting with depression of the deep tendon reflexes and paraesthesias, and ...

Example: The patellar reflex (knee-jerk reaction) is a tap on the patellar tendon, which activates muscle spindles in the quadriceps, triggering contraction to resist excessive stretch.