• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago

    Do knee hammers not work for anybody else? They try each one about a half dozen times with three different people and I don’t react at all.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        22 days ago

        Yeah they say “Huh” and then hit it harder and then say “Huh?” and switch to the other knee and say “Huh??”

        Then they call in someone else and they whack my knee and say “Huh” a few more times before they give up.

        • Aa!@lemmy.world
          1·
          22 days ago

          Which leads me to wonder what they do that test for. You failed, and they just… Scratched their heads in confusion?

          Wouldn’t this be an indicator of a neurological issue?

          • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            22 days ago

            Huh, today I learned that that is a neurological test.

            I’m not a doctor, but I was always under the impression that when they do that they’re whacking on the tendon directly and the leg-jerk reaction is just… well, physics. The tendon is manually flexed and the leg should jerk in response and I always assumed this was just testing to make sure your knees are in good shape. But according to Britannica.com where my brief searching led me,

            Exaggeration or absence of the reaction suggests that there may be damage to the central nervous system. The knee jerk can also be helpful in recognizing thyroid disease.

            • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
              1·
              22 days ago

              Yeah, you’ve got some brain in your spine. It manages your reflexes, involuntary responses like the knee thing. They’re doing that to make sure the neural tissue in your spine is healthy.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            1·
            22 days ago

            Wouldn’t this be an indicator of a neurological issue?

            I’m not a geologist, but if it is, I think they should tell them tbh…

          • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            22 days ago

            It’s been this way for as long as I’ve been getting whacked in the knee, and I have no other symptoms and am in otherwise good health.

            I’ve tried telling them that it won’t work before they try it, but they seem to take this as a challenge.

            • Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.org
              1·
              14 days ago

              In any case, its still weird you just have hypotonia since seemingly birth and they just seem to go “it is what it is” instead of finding out why. Or you have some sort of condition that could explain it yet doctors always test it anyhow?