LONG survival of patients with complete severance of the spinal cord is rarely encountered in civilian life. During the recent world conflict, however, the high incidence of casualties from ...

Abstract: Reflex responses to unexpected stretches are well documented for a range of muscles in both animal and human. Moreover, investigations of their possible functional significance, has revealed ...

LONDON. Royal Society, November 1.—E. G. T. Liddell and Sir Charles Sherrington: A comparison between certain features of the spinal flexor reflex and of the decerebrate extensor reflex respectively.

Objective: To measure spasticity of the knee flexors and extensor muscles in two different hip positions. Setting: Swiss Paraplegic Center Nottwil, Switzerland. Methods: Twenty spinal cord injured ...

The Gordon reflex was also called the “paradoxical flexor reflex” when Dr. Alfred Gordon first demonstrated the reflex in 1904 at the Philadelphia Neurological Society. The reflex is a clinical sign ...