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.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 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 3 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 Doctora always test it anyhow?