Reflexes are automatic and involuntary actions the body produces in response to certain stimuli. While some reflexes can involve muscles and movement, others involve internal processes within the body ...

We all have reflexes. They are a type of involuntary movement or action that occurs in response to a stimulus. When you go to the doctor, and they hit your knee with a light hammer, your leg ...

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 ...

We have spent the last month looking at how the disease process occurs in the spine. Today, we are going to finish that discussion by looking specifically at the very top spinal bone. This bone is ...

In order to evaluate whether the response of a reflex vagal stimulation (oculo-cardiac reflex:OCR) is influenced by the ANS tone (sympathetic or parasympathetic dominance) and stages of alertness ...