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What's the technical name for a patella hammer?


What's the technical name for a patella hammer?

A reflex hammer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendon_hamm...

Reflex hammer. Reflex Mallet. There are several other places on the body where reflexes are tested other than the patella.

A patella hammer is called....a patella hammer!!
There are different kinds though, one is called a Queens Percussor.

Sometimes they're called a tendon hammer.

PATELLA HAMMER - that IS the techical name.

**Otherwise known as a 'knee basher' !

Percussor or percussion hammer. Also known as the knee reflex hammer.

deep tendon reflex hammer????

Patella hammer.

Doctors use a number of types of hammer, one is called a patella hammer, they have round rubber ends and flexible handles. I've never heard it called anything else. http://www.spservices.co.uk/popup_image....

There are percussion hammers that are shaped like tomahawks, sometimes called a Taylor hammer.
http://www.nu-careproducts.co.uk/IMAGES/...

I guess the technical term would be patella hammer. Common name would be knee hammer.

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