Hyperreflexia

As hyperreflexia both a generally increased reflex readiness as well as the increase of individual reflections is called neurology. In both cases, the hyperreflexia suppressed by an unusually strong reflex response with lighter inducibility of deep tendon reflexes ( reflex zone broadening ).

A general hyperreflexia with a general increase in the tendon reflexes may occur in a variety of diseases (including metabolic disorders such as hyperthyroidism ). However, this investigation comes to finding not necessarily a disease value: it is also observed in healthy people, especially when excited.

The hyperreflexia individual muscle groups can give (together with pyramidal tract signs ) a reference to an injury in the course of motor tracts in the brain and spinal cord.