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Hoffmann's Sign or Reflex
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Hoffmann's Sign or Reflex
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Language: EN.
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So viewers, today I'm going to show you a reflex, which is called a Hoffman's reflex and this is seen in patients with upper motor neuron lesion or patients with cervical myelopathy. So this is a very useful reflex, and you should always make it as part of your neurological examination. So what is Hoffman's reflex?
So first of all, what you need to do is to take the forearm of the patient and take the whole weight so that you ask the patients to relax. You take the whole weight of the arm, sorry, forearm of the patient, so that she is nicely relaxed. And then you flick the middle finger. So as you flick just keep an eye on what happens to the patient's thumb and index finger.
So she's just going to do this. Every time I flick it, you will see patients doing this. So you see here. So this is a classically positive Hoffman reflex, suggestive of cervical myelopathy. So if I show you again. So this is a positive, Hoffman reflex. So same thing from the top.
If you see when I flick, what happens when I flick the finger? Can you see it? So this is a classically positive Hoffman reflex. Thank you.