Reflex

Swaddling is an age-old practice that consists of wrapping infants snugly in swaddling cloths, or blankets so that the movement of their limbs is restricted, this tradition has been around for centuries. Swaddling is still popular today, having many benefits for the new baby as well as the parents.The main benefits of swaddling are keeping your baby warm, secure, comfortable, and decreasing or even eliminating symptoms of colic. Even the Bible refers to swaddling babies, including Jesus, so it…

Motor function and motor control begin in the motor cortex of the brain. The primary motor cortex is associated with generation of a motor program. Premotor areas are involved in complicated motor functions, such as required changes in output forces or velocities, or motor response to visual or auditory input. Also, the basal ganglia and thalamus are important coordinating centers for goal­directed motor programs and patterns. The cerebellum allows for unimpeded movements of those motor programs…

The CFMEU (Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union) is the major trade union in forestry, construction energy production, mining and furnishing product. The union is among the main stakeholders in native forestry in Victoria. Apart of its functions, the union is affiliated with the Australian Labor Party, Australian Council of Trade Unions and the world federation of trade unions. This union has a major role to play in determining the manner in which the native forests in Victoria are…

Sciences, he continued schooling through the Imperial Medical Academy and graduated in 1883. While enrolled at the medical academy, Ivan researched the centrifugal nerves of the heart, leading him to the idea of nervism. He developed his own ideas of “reflex regulation of the activity of the circulatory organs,” (The Nobel Foundation 2015) meaning the automatic response between the organs of the circulatory system triggered by a particular stimuli. This study was…

Epilepsy According to National Institute of Health in the United States approximately 3 million people have epilepsy. The largest of epilepsy cases occur in early childhood. The largest increases in its frequency is being seen in the elderly population. (www.nih.gov) According to epilepsy.com the frequency of Epilepsy in the United States is greater that then of autism spectrum disorders, Parkinson’s Disease, multiple sclerosis, and cerebral palsy combined. (https://epilepsy.com) Per the…

to outgrow the normal startle response. The National Tay-Sachs Allies Diseases regards the “normal startle response” as, “normal reflex for an infant when he or she is startled or feels like they are falling. The infant will have a "startled" look and the arms will fling out sideways with the palms up and the thumbs flexed.” (NTSAD). If a child does not outgrow this reflex, it is a early sign of a number of problems that will be more noticeable in the future. By two months the child will begin…

DOI: 09/09/1993. Patient is a 60-year-old male supervisor who sustained a low back injury when he was rear-ended while driving to a job site. Patient is diagnosed with lumbar disc degeneration. He has a lumbar surgical history of fusion L5 to S1 and 3 back surgeries in 1994, 1997, and 2003. CT scan of the lumbar spine with contrast done on 07/07/2014 reveals post surgical changes. There is mild central canal stenosis at L2 to L3 and L3 to L4 secondary to 3.0 mm disc protrusions and short…

Laparoscopy, also called minimally invasive surgery (MIS), band aid surgery, keyhole surgery, is a modern surgical technique designed for the visual inspection of peritoneal cavity, biopsy of its organs and various operative procedures in the abdominal and pelvic cavities. Though laparoscopy was first performed in dogs in the early 1900s by Dr. Georg Kelling, the first successful laparoscopic surgery in humans was cholecystectomy in 1987 (1). During last two decades the laparoscopy has been…

Middle Ear Case 2A A 60 year old female was seen today for an audiological evaluation following the persistence of fluctuating, hearing loss and tinnitus in her right ear over the last year. She also reports occasional dizziness and aural fullness that affects her right ear more than her left ear. She is currently seeking a hearing aid for her right ear but is wondering if anything may be done to correct her hearing loss. Some additional necessary information may be what was she doing when the…

spoiled milk, has much to do with an early genetic mutation that selected for an expansive autonomic reaction to alkaloids, which are more often than not quite poisonous.1 The actual step-action sequence of events involved with the pucker and gag reflex are likewise expressible in terms of anatomical movement. But…