The human nervous system has never been completely unraveled by doctors and scientists. Mankind is gradually beginning to understand medical words like a reflex, an axon, or a nerve impulse.
But in each field of activity there are those who, in fact, turned science and made a significant contribution to the development of the medical industries. Such people can be safely attributed to academician Pavlov, who gave an explanation of the physiology of human reflexes. With this, he allowed others to look at the world with different eyes. As a result of its discovery, the active development of industries such as psychiatry and neurology began. And scientists, for example, Oppenheim, contributed to the further development.
Pathology: Neurological Reflexes
Oppenheim reflex is a neurological disease. This means that a healthy person will not observe these signs. Oppenheim pathological reflexes can be checked by pressing with the finger on the tibia with movements from the bottom up, after which the contraction and pulling upward will begin on the big toe of the foot.
This symptom is similar to the Babinsky reflex (when stroking the back of the leg, the same phenomenon will be visible). Pathological reflexes in neurology, as a rule, are paired. Now many other signs are distinguished (Gordon, Hirschberg, Zhukovsky), but in practice the symptoms are not checked by a specialist, it’s enough to check only three.
Oppenheim Reflex Characterization
A pathological stop extensor reflex is associated with a malfunction in the cerebral hemisphere. It indicates a malfunction of the efferent conduction of the nerve impulse directly to the reflector organs.
Often failures in the extrapyramidal system imply an Oppenheim reflex. Based on this, suggest the first stage of development of neurodegenerative dementia. Thanks to this, it is possible to start treatment in a timely manner and keep the disease at an initial stage.
As a rule, this disease is considered to be Parkinson's disease, which provokes a defeat of the efferent innervation. As a result, even skeletal paralysis can occur, and after the heart muscle. It should be understood that such an ailment develops and arises in the region of motor nuclei from the bottom up.
Signs of Oppenheim Syndrome
The main sign of this ailment is considered to be vegetative colic in the eyeball. This is a burning pain that applies to all vegetalgia and appears in the image of painful paroxysm, which lasts about half an hour or more. In some cases, the O ppenheim reflex occurs , in which the duration of pain paroxysm is about 7 days. The patient has the feeling that something is squeezing the eyeball out of the eye socket. Pain enters and spreads across the temple and forehead.
Rarely, reflex irradiation can be found, it implies the development of pain in the neck, shoulder girdle. At the time of the attack, the patient has conjunctivitis, accompanied by lacrimation and fear of light. Often, symptoms appear in the evening or at night. The acute period implies the presence of everyday attacks, after which the interictal stage should go. As a rule, the disease occurs in a certain season - in the spring or in the fall.
Sometimes such symptoms can provoke complications after surgery. The development of the disease can contribute to cold exposure on the face and head, as well as constant stress.
Symptoms at the physiological level
The sign shows irreversible changes in the area of efferent innervation. And such a phenomenon arises due to the impact of a finger on the bone, after which sensory reflexes associated with the brain receive the signal. Initially, they follow in the spinal cord and only then enter the motor neuron site of the brain.
Oppenheim reflex is that at the time of the passage of a nerve impulse, the body must react. Since neurons of the extrapyramidal system are affected, the signal does not reach the organ in full, so the spinal reflex is connected to the work. It consists in extending the thumb of the foot.
Another version of this pathology is also distinguished. It consists in the following: since nerve cells synthesize dopamine, in the process of dementia of neurons the required number of its synthesis is simply missing. Based on what there is no signal from the central nervous system, the links of the reflex arc are disrupted. Human spinal reflexes are involved in the activity, which are not observed in a healthy person.
Treatment
The initial stage of treatment for the Oppenheim reflex is the differential diagnosis of brain disorders. Due to the simplicity and accessibility of the procedure, each neurologist will be able to make the correct diagnosis and provide competent treatment. Therapy is to stop paroxysms. For these purposes, symptomatic medications are prescribed, including vitamins.