We are, I trust, all but universally familiar with the knee jerk, or patellar, reflex. A doctor taps the patellar tendon with a rubber mallet, and our leg kicks forward in response. The reaction is ...

There are lots of things kids don’t like about doctor’s visits; shots, blood tests and throat swabs top the list. One thing they love is having their knee reflexes checked. A reflex is an involuntary, ...

To examine changes in the magnitude of the flexion reflex following functional electrical stimulation (FES) of the rectus femoris (RF) muscle. The flexion reflex was evoked by electrical stimulation ...