The Moro reflex is a protective "primitive reflex" seen in healthy babies up to 6 months old. A baby's arms quickly extend away from the body with palms up and fingers splayed apart, and then retract ...

Tendons are tough, inelastic bands of connective tissue formed of a dense, highly organized matrix of parallel collagen fibres that is maintained by resident tenocytes. Tendons attach skeletal ...

Achilles tendinosis is a common problem. It is a chronic condition that is characterized by microscopic tears of the Achilles tendon. The damage can be treated with rest, exercise, and sometimes with ...

What is posterior tibialis tendon surgery? Posterior tibialis tendon surgery is a way to fix the tendon on the back of your calf that goes down the inside part of your ankle. A surgeon can do a few ...

His palmomental reflex and snout reflex were positive. Deep tendon reflexes were symmetrical—2+ in the upper extremities, 3+ at the knees, but barely detectable in the ankles. Vibration sense ...

Tendinitis, also known as tendonitis, is the inflammation of a tendon. It usually occurs when a person overuses or injures a tendon during physical activity. Tendons are cable-like tissues that ...

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.

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 ...

Further, mechanical interactions of the muscle spindle with muscle-tendon dynamics reveal how motor commands to the muscle (alpha drive) versus muscle spindle (gamma drive) can cause highly variable ...