Research article summary (published 30 Dec 1998):

[The characteristics of the bioelectrical excitation of the muscles of the lower extremities during the evocation of knee-jerk reflexes in patients with lumbar osteochondrosis]

(Osobennosti bioélektricheskogo vozbuzhdeniia myshts nizhnykh konechnostei pri vyzyvanii kolennykh refleksov u bol'nykh poiasnichnym osteokhondrozom.)

Full Abstract

While provoking a knee-jerk reflex in patients with lumber osteochondrosis one can observe irradiation of excitation going on to the muscles of both feet. Augmentation of kinetic response of a knee-jerk reflex on the side of pain in this patient population is deemed to be a major cause of relief of the reflex ability of spinal centres. The above-described way in which the bioelectric excitation of muscles of the lower extremities makes itself evident in eliciting knee-jerk reflexes indicates some change(s) in reflex excitation of spinal centres in patients with lumbar osteochondrosis, which fact suggests to us an involvement of these structures into the pathological process.

Author information

Author/s: Nazarenko, V G (VG); Vislyi, A L (AL);

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: English Abstract; Journal Article

Journal: Likars'ka sprava / Ministerstvo okhorony zdorov'ia Ukraïny (Lik Sprava), published in UKRAINE. (Language: rus)

Reference: -1999 Jan-Feb; vol (issue 1) : pp 92-4

Dates: Created 1999/08/23; Completed 1999/08/23; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 10424012, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 2/18/2009)

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Electromyography - instrumentation; methods Humans Leg - physiopathology Lumbar Vertebrae Muscle, Skeletal - physiopathology

Muscle, Skeletal - physiopathology Osteochondritis - physiopathology Patella Reflex, Stretch - physiology Spondylitis - physiopathology

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