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Pediatric Primitive Reflexes - Maneuver and Ages

Palmar Grasp Reflex
 - Place your fingers into the baby's
Pediatric Primitive ... Asymmetric Tonic Neck ... Ages #Timeline #Pediatrics ... Diagnosis #Neurology #PhysicalExam ... Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics
Pitting Leg Edema on Physical Exam

Finger impressions showcasing post-surgical pitting leg edema after knee injury.

Via David
Pitting Leg Edema ... post-surgical pitting leg ... edema after knee ... Pitting #Edema #PhysicalExam ... clinical #video #leg
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR)

This primitive reflex found in newborn babies that normally vanishes around 4
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck ... one side, the leg ... and the arm and leg ... #Reflex #PhysicalExam ... Neurology #Peds #Pediatrics
Brudzinski’s Sign in Meningitis (first described in 19th century by Dr. Josef Brudzinski)

Brudzinski's sign is characterized
flexion of the knees ... following passive neck ... Passive neck flexion ... Clinical #Video #PhysicalExam ... #Pediatrics #Peds
Diagnostic Testing for Meningitis
History:
 • Triad: Fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status
 • Sens: 44%
Triad: Fever, neck ... Kernig Sign: • Leg ... Passively flex neck ... and legs will flex ... diagnosis #testing #physicalexam
Hemiplegic Gait 

With a hemiplegic gait there is impaired natural swinging at the hip and knee
at the hip and knee ... with leg circumduction ... ambulation, the leg ... Gait #Neurology #PhysicalExam
Apley Compression Test on Knee Examination

With the patient prone, the knee being tested is flexed to
Compression Test on Knee ... patient prone, the knee ... while the other leg ... compression force on the leg ... #PhysicalExam #
Kernig's Sign in Meningitis

Kernig's sign is present if the patient, in the supine position with the
with the hip and knee ... cannot extend the knee ... extension of the knee ... Clinical #Video #PhysicalExam ... #Pediatrics #Peds
Lower Extremity Dermatomes and Myotomes
Reflexes: 
 • Knee - L2, L3, L4
 • Ankle - S1
Reflexes: • Knee ... and bilateral leg ... nerve at fibular neck ... sensory #motor #leg ... #physicalexam
In a patient in the supine position, raising the leg with the knee extended stretches the
position, raising the leg ... with the knee extended ... elevation of the leg ... buttock to below the knee ... #Diagnosis #PhysicalExam