FOURTH GENERATION WIRELESS REFLEX QUANTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING TENDON REFLEX RESPONSE AND LATENCY

An intrinsic aspect of the standard neurological examination is the deep tendon reflex. A clinician is tasked with qualitatively evaluating reflex parameters, such as reflex response and latency. The tendon reflex is capable of providing preliminary insight with respect to dysfunction of the central and peripheral nervous systems. The qualitative assessment of the tendon reflex can be classified through the implementation of an ordinal scale, such as the NINDS scale which spans five ordinal components from 0 to 4. The reliability and accuracy of the ordinal-scale method for classifying reflex characteristics have been demonstrated to be an issue of controversy. Ordinal scales lack the capacity to properly classify the temporal features of the tendon reflex. Electrodiagnostic testing traditionally provides higher fidelity evaluation of peripheral neuropathy; however, a study by Cocito et al., has discovered 28% of the prescriptions were inappropriate. The fourth-generation wireless reflex quantification sy...