Gordon reflex

The Gordon reflex , according to the neurologist Alfred Gordon (1874–1953), is one of the so-called pyramidal orbit signs that indicate damage to central motor neurons .

When kneading the calf muscles, as with the other pyramidal tract signs, a tonic dorsiflexion of the big toe and often a spreading of the toes II to V occur.

Further pyramidal signs are the reflexes according to Joseph Babinski ( Babinski reflex ), Gordon, Hermann Oppenheim ( Oppenheim reflex ) and Adolf von Strümpell ( Strümpell sign ), which are sometimes also referred to as reflexes of the Babinski group.

These reflexes are physiological in newborns and infants, and obligatorily pathological in adults.