The most familiar reflex is straightening your knee when a healthcare provider taps on the tendon below your kneecap with a reflex hammer. A stimulus (the hammer) causes a signal to be sent via a ...

In patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA), pain and dysfunction cause a reflex inhibition on the quadriceps femoral muscle, and quadriceps weakness could accelerate damage to knee cartilage.

Although it is well appreciated that the Lachmann test is the most sensitive clinical sign for detecting ACL rupture, this sensitivity may be reduced in the presence of a locked knee.1 The anterior ...