Reflex

When I stroked her face her tongue immediately came out which was actually really adorable. An additional reflex I tested was the sucking reflex I put a binky up to her lips (this was the stimulus) and her response was sucking on it. This reflex was also seen when I fed her a bottle later on. Another reflex I tested was the plantar grasp reflex. This reflex requires you to stimulate the foot. You do this by applying “pressure to the foot proximal to the toes and distal to the ball…

The mean reflex conduction time for Achilles tendon light tap was 48.1ms, for Achilles tendon medium tap it was 125.25ms, and for Achilles tendon heavy was 167.5ms. The Reflex conduction velocity was calculated to be 28.15m/s for Achilles tendon light tap, 10.74m/s for Achilles tendon medium tap, and 8.02m/s for Achilles tendon heavy tap. According to the literature (Human Physiology An Integrated Approach 6th Ed pg. 339) the Achilles tendon light tap was 28.15m/s which was in the range between…

The stretch reflex, also known as knee jerk reflex, needs a stimulus to start. A perfect example would be when the doctor taps your tendon to stretch the muscle. The receptors are the muscle spindles, which fire action potentials. The action potential travels down through a sensory…

are able open and close them voluntarily. What is grasping reflex? Have you ever witnessed the baby securely grasping your finger, if you put it into the baby's palm? This very reflex of the baby being able to tightly grasp your finger is called grasping reflex. This reflex can also be witnessed in the baby's feet too. The baby will grasp your finger by curling the toes, when…

swallowing reflexes being the most important. A baby will automatically initiate sucking when their mouth region is touched. The rooting reflex is when a baby’s cheek is touched and they turn their head towards whatever is touching them. This instinctive reflex aids the baby in finding the nipple for feeding. The next reflex is called the startle or Moro reflex. The startle reflex happens when a baby hears a startling noise or when he falls backward, and results in his arms and legs extending…

According to the results, the mean amplitude of normal reflex is greater than the Jendrassik maneuver. There should be greater amplitude with the Jendrassik maneuver because Jendrassik maneuver reduces the person’s ability to voluntarily affect the response to the tap made to the tendon even if they are fully aware of why the distraction is being incorporated into the test (Zabelis et al. 1998).The Jendrassik maneuver had low mean amplitude of the angle of deflection which can be due to some…

becomes skills if they are practiced and encouraged. Infants are born with a sucking reflex, rooting reflex, moro reflex and grasping reflex. These reflexes becomes skills that is need in the development of gross motor skills. Gross motor skills is the physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking and jumping (Berger, 2014, p. 103). Gross motor skill development starts from infancy with reflex to development of posture, crawling and to learning to walk. It continue into…

A reflex is an action performed by the body without thinking to prevent harm. Components of the reflex arc are the receptor, sensory neurons, interneurons, motor neurons and effectors. The body can respond to danger before the message is sent to the brain because the motor neurons conduct action potentials that will generate a reflex response, and the interneurons at the same time transmit the secondary information to…

protection but what also needs to be trained is your response to a sudden attack or what is known as the startle response. ***** The startle response (also known as the startle reflex and the alarm reaction) is an involuntary reaction to an external stimuli such as a loud noise or a sudden threatening movement. The reflex is set off by stimuli to the brain stem which is located at the base of the skull at the top of the spinal cord. The brainstem controls the involuntary functions of the body…

Response, which can be also known as ‘The Mammalian Dive Response/Reflex. The Diving reflex consists of set of reflexes that are activated when our face is cooled or if we hold our breath. This is a clever psychological mechanism because it enables our bodies to manage and to tolerate a lower level of oxygen in an environment that we do not normally face every day. There are three main changes that occur in our body when our Dive reflex triggers; Bradycardia, Peripheral vasoconstriction and…