Orthostatic hypertension—a rise in blood pressure upon assuming upright posture—is an underappreciated and understudied clinical phenomenon. There is currently no widely agreed-upon definition of ...

When each of us sits down, we navigate our feet to a position that feels comfortable, even if the seat we are in is uncomfortable. What we may not realize is that how we position our feet may affect ...

LONDON. Royal Society, Jan. 24.—D. Denny-Brown: (1) On the nature of postural reflexes. Postural reflexes are all based on Liddell nd Sherrington's stretch-reflex. This basic reflex is a discharge of ...

LET us revert now to the reflex “standing” exhibited by the decerebrate animal. We traced it to a postural contraction of the antigravity muscles, in each of which the contraction was due to a ...