14. Suppose a person has spinal cord damage at the cervical level. Would this stop the knee-jerk reflex? How would it affect the plantar (Babinski) reflex? Explain.

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14. Suppose a person has spinal cord damage at the cervical level. Would this stop the knee-jerk reflex? How would it affect the
plantar (Babinski) reflex? Explain.
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15. Spinal cord damage interrupts descending motor tracts that act to suppress the activity of spinal motor neurons. Use this
information, and the muscle stretch reflex pathway, to explain why someone with a spinal cord injury can have muscle spasms
below the level of the injury.
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Transcribed Image Text:14. Suppose a person has spinal cord damage at the cervical level. Would this stop the knee-jerk reflex? How would it affect the plantar (Babinski) reflex? Explain. nis bonsts bns 15. Spinal cord damage interrupts descending motor tracts that act to suppress the activity of spinal motor neurons. Use this information, and the muscle stretch reflex pathway, to explain why someone with a spinal cord injury can have muscle spasms below the level of the injury. a banm
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