Corrective response
The corrective response is a neurological test in veterinary medicine that, unlike most other posture and positional responses, can be used on almost all animals.
execution
In the corrective reaction, one of the animal's feet is brought into a bent position so that the back of the front or rear of the foot touches the ground. This position is also known as " overkilling ". A neurologically healthy animal corrects the position of the foot within half a second.
A modified corrective response is carried out by placing one foot on a cardboard and pulling it sideways. From a certain inclination, the animal returns the limb to the vertical position.
Diagnostic significance
The corrective reaction serves to reveal disturbances in self-perception , in particular of the posterior cord tract in the spinal cord and the descending motor tracts . The standard procedure is particularly sensitive for failures in the foot area, the modification for failures in the area of the upper limbs. With diseases of the skeleton or the musculature, the corrective reaction is mostly undisturbed.
literature
- André Jaggy: Atlas and textbook of small animal neurology . Schlütersche, Hannover 2005, ISBN 3-87706-739-5 .
- Marc Vandevelde among others: Veterinary neurology. A guide for study and practice. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Paul Parey Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8263-3224-5 .
