Doctors often strike your knee gently with a rubber hammer and see if your leg gives a little kick as part of a routine physical. This patellar reflex test is literally looking for a knee jrk response, one that you are not thinking about at all! What do you think the doctor is testing here
what part of the body would this test examine? What would an abnormal result look like, and why is it important to detect abnormal results? How might a patient’s response change as they enter old age, as opposed to when we are tested as children?