Abnormal Motoric Exam : Stretch or Deep Tendon Reflexes

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Stretch or Deep Tendon Reflexes
There is hyperreflexia of the right knee jerk (3+) with a rightsided crossed adductor response (the crossed adductor contraction occurred because of the increased right leg tone which resulted in reflex contraction of the adductor magnus with the very slight stretch of this muscle caused by tapping the opposite knee). There is also hyperreflexia with clonus (4+ DTR) of the right ankle. The second patient demonstrates a 4+ ankle jerk on the left with sustained clonus.
Hyperreflexia is one of the signs of the UMN syndrome

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• Deep Tendon Reflexes
• Stretch
• adductor
• adductor magnus
• hyperreflexia
• UMN syndrome

[jonabank]

So.. what if you have hyperreflexia? I am certain that I do it just as much as her on both my patellar stretch reflexes :/

[HijadelCreador]

great video!

[tinjmail]

@girrrlyman : Thank you very much!

[girrrlyman]

@tinjmail

yes, it's an example of clonus hyperreflexia

[ExpertSwimmer]

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[tinjmail]

For the last exam, the left feet was shaking. Can someone tell me if that's hyperreflexia?

[JTanis]

thank you very much. I was wondering how hyperreflexia is