IhavePLS
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2011
- Messages
- 279
- Reason
- DX UMND/PLS
- Diagnosis
- 12/2010
- Country
- US
- State
- Pennsylvania
- City
- SW
Hi to all,
I'm very curious: Aside from Babinski, hyperreflexivity of the knees, etc., etc., one of the very first tests my first neuro gave me was the "toe tapping test"...
This is done with your heel firmly planted on the floor, and then you move your toes up and down as rapidly as you can...when I do so, my foot "stalls" - i.e., it stops and I cannot move it....appears somewhat like clonus (maybe it is a form of clonus). I can't do it with either foot.
Has anyone else had a neurologist perform such a test - and is it deemed to be sensitive and/or specific for UMN?
I have found a link on this:
AboutBFS.com • View topic - Foot tests - Toe tapping and ankle clonus
But curious as to what those here think!
THANKS!
Mike
I'm very curious: Aside from Babinski, hyperreflexivity of the knees, etc., etc., one of the very first tests my first neuro gave me was the "toe tapping test"...
This is done with your heel firmly planted on the floor, and then you move your toes up and down as rapidly as you can...when I do so, my foot "stalls" - i.e., it stops and I cannot move it....appears somewhat like clonus (maybe it is a form of clonus). I can't do it with either foot.
Has anyone else had a neurologist perform such a test - and is it deemed to be sensitive and/or specific for UMN?
I have found a link on this:
AboutBFS.com • View topic - Foot tests - Toe tapping and ankle clonus
But curious as to what those here think!
THANKS!
Mike