Talk:Hoffmann's reflex

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Can someone please spell this correctly in the title, as the name is spelled Hoffmann (not Hoffman) everywhere else in the article? Also correct the link to this page from the article on Hoffmann's sign. -- billybob
 * ✅ Astronaut (talk) 10:44, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Formal request has been received to merge Hoffmann's sign into Hoffmann's reflex; dated: November 2017. Proposer's Rationale: The former article has nearly no new content compared to the latter; and the two terms are used interchangeably. Discuss here. Richard3120 (talk) 19:29, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

I consider this entire pathological reflex formally termed Hoffmann's reflex, but in reality, colloquially and teaching wise, almost most people who would search this term whether as a student, someone curious or even a researcher, will conventionally use the term Hoffman's Sign, or just Hoffmann's in search engines. In two (Richard F. LeBlond & Macleod's) textbooks that I have personally confirmed in, they only refer to this sign as 'Hoffmann's Sign' in the title and then go on to label it in diagrams as Hoffmann's sign. On MeSH, they refer to it as 'Hoffmann's Reflex, although it is interesting to note that there are still a considerable amount of resources 32 vs. 70 on PubMed that still use 'Hoffmann's Sign'. So, as long as the SEO is setup properly for Hoffmann's Sign, I'm all for the merger. Sk9c00 (talk) 14:03, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

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Support the merge with correct language and redirects. Am here cause I'm reviewing what can comprise a neurological exam. One online med dictionary has "Babinski reflex (sign)" and "Hoffmann sign, Hoffmann reflex".

FYI, I also found that Hypothyroid myopathy is "Hoffman's syndrome", a rare neurological disease, and "Werdnig-Hoffman disease" describes acute spinal muscular atrophy. Hoffmann and Hoffman are different, don't know if Hoffman 1 was (is) different from Hoffman 2 (obviously diseases are).

GeeBee60 (talk) 16:02, 16 May 2018 (UTC)