The knee jerk reflex can be tested by tapping just below the knee causing the lower leg to suddenly jerk forward. You are working the patella tendon. This is the tendon that runs down from the ...

What are we to make of the dispute between Immune Response (Carlsbad, CA) and academic researchers over the publication of unfavorable clinical trial data on the company's anti-HIV vaccine Remune? ...

Should You Wear a Knee Brace While Running?

“It was a very knee-jerk reaction. I was emotional and I was kind of — what you don’t see in that scene is I was a little frustrated at the women who are my friends but they were bringing up ...

How is the knee designed, and what is its function? The knee is a joint which has three parts. The thigh bone (femur) meets the large shin bone (tibia) forming the main knee joint. This joint has ...

Recent experimental data have not shown any substantial effects of a meniscal lesion on the reflex behaviour of the hamstrings.3 In the early stages of examining an acutely painful locked knee, limb ...

The Toronto Maple Leafs had a chance to clinch a playoff spot tonight, and, well, didn’t. With a single point against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Leafs would have punched their ticket to the ...

Rather than do something tangible about the crosschecking epidemic that has infected the league, it will instead react in a knee-jerk way and make changes without regard for the consequences.

[Denish Ochieng, Standard] Magistrate Monica Kivuti’s death has affirmed how Kenya’s knee-jerk culture is perpetuating our misery. Kivuti was shot last week in a makeshift courtroom in ...

Your doctor will recommend other treatments first. Knee replacement surgery is usually a last resort when damage to the knee is severe and irreparable. Some people get surgery to remove the ...

Market participants believe even if there is a knee-jerk reaction on Monday, the recovery will be quick given that this ...

Renal impairment. Monitor serum magnesium levels; if repeated doses are given, test knee jerk reflexes before each dose. Have injectable calcium salt readily available to counteract magnesium ...