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Why is there hyperactive relfexes in spinal cord injury?

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it depends where on spinal cord. it needs to affect CST/UMN, not LMN in the ventral horn.

once you sever CST, you dont have UMN and LMN connection. UMN provide inhibitory to LMN after 1 reflex action. so if you remove inhibition = hyperreflexive/clonus
 
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