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THE PLANTAR REFLEX - RePub

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS<br />

figure<br />

page<br />

1. BABINSKI, photographed in 1904...................... 20<br />

2. The 'duck - rabbit' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />

3. Mean ratings for test films of plantar reflexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

4. The musculus extensor hallucis longus and its anatomical<br />

relationship to neighbouring muscles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />

5. Reflex activity in flexor hallucis brevis, extensor hallucis<br />

brevis and extensor hallucis longus after mechanical stimulation<br />

of the plantar surface in a normal subject and in a patient<br />

with a Babinski sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4<br />

6. Reflex activity in flexor hallucis brevis and extensor hallucis<br />

longus after electrical and mechanical stimulation of the<br />

plantar surface in a normal subject and in a patient with a<br />

Babinski sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

7. The Babinski sign and the tendon of the extensor hallucis<br />

longus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

8. Relative dimensions and weights of extensor hallucis longus<br />

and extensor hallucis brevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80<br />

9. Design of study of equivocal plantar reflexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

10. Patterns of activity in the extensor hallucis longus . . . . . . . . 93<br />

11. Occult Babinski signs in a patient with hallux valgus . . . . . . 103<br />

12. Lack of correlation between "absolute' values of flexion reflex<br />

and tendon reflexes in 50 patients with a unilateral Babinski<br />

szgn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129<br />

13. Electromyogram from the flexor hallucis brevis in a patient<br />

with a paradoxical downward response of the great toe<br />

after spinal transection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5<br />

14. Proposed interaction of pyramidal tract and flexion reflex<br />

pathways in the spinal cord. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

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