1. Mechanism that result in a patient showing hyperreflexia and hypertonia
Hypertonia is muscle stiffness. It can also be associated with the increased muscle tone. Reflexes (such as a knee-jerk reflex) in hypertonia are stronger or increased. Hypertonia may hinder walking, movement or speech of a man. Muscles are strained and tight to the touch. Tonus is increased by the spastic type; muscle tone in the study of the resistance is felt at the beginning of the movement (a symptom of ‘folding knife’). The obvious hypertonia is characterized by contracture. In hemiplegia (hemiparesis) in hand, tone increases in adductor
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