Assessment of Hyperactive Reflexes in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

Hyperactive reflexes are commonly observed in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) but there is a lack of convenient and quantitative characterizations. Patellar tendon reflexes were examined in nine SCI patients and ten healthy control subjects by tapping the tendon using a hand-held instrumented...

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Main Authors: Dali Xu, Xin Guo, Chung-Yong Yang, Li-Qun Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/149875