Superficial Reflexes Flashcards
What reflex is tested by touching the posterior tongue or back of throat?
Gag reflex
Gag and elevation of the soft palate and constriction of the pharyngeal muscle would be a normal response to what superficial reflex test?
Gag reflex
What are the segmental and periphera nerves tested by the corneal blink reflex?
Cranial nerve 5 and 7
What superficial reflex is tested by touching the cornea with a wisp of cotton?
Corneal blink
What a normal corneal blink response?
Blinking of BOTH eyes
What is the segmental innervation being tested by the epigastric reflex?
T5- T7
What is the periphera nerve for epigastric reflex?
Intercostal
Which reflex test has you stimulate from the sternum toward the umbilicus?
Epigastric (superficial) reflex
What would indicate a normal epigastric reflex?
Contraction of the upper abdominal muscle
What reflex tests the segmental innervation of T7-T9?
Upper abdominal (superficial) reflex
All abdominal reflexes test what periphera nerve?
Intercostal
With lower abdominal also testing iliohypogastric and ilioinguinal.
Which reflex has you stimulate the upper abs from down and out and then out to in?
Upper abdominal (superficial) reflex
What are the segmental and periphera nerves tested by the superficial gag reflex?
Cranial nerve 9 and 10
Contraction of the upper abs. Moving the umbilicus up and out is a normal response for what reflex test?
Upper abdominal reflex
What is the segmental innervation for the middle abdominal reflex?
T9-T11
What is the procedure for the middle abdominal reflex test?
Stimulate the skin at the level of the umbilicus from out to in, and vertical
What is a normal response for middle abdominal reflex test?
Contraction of the middle abs. Moving umbilicus laterally
What is segmental innervation for lower abdominal test?
T11-T12
What is the periphera nerve for lower abdominal?
Intercostal
Iliohypogastric
Ilioinguinal
What is the segmental innervation for the cremaster in reflex?
L1-L2
What is the periphera innervation for cremasteric reflex?
Ilioinguinal
Genitofemoral
What is the segmental innervation for gluteal reflex?
L4-S2
What is the peripheral innervation for gluteal reflex?
Inferior gluteal
What is the segmental innervation of the plantar reflex?
L4-S2
