In clinical practice, we might scrape the arch of your foot with the handle of a reflex hammer. Plantar flexion of the great toe is normal. Dorsiflexion (pointing of the toe upward) is not. But I don't know what the stimulus is in your case.
Picture of congestive heart failure. The heart is a pump that works together with the lungs. The heart pumps blood from the veins through the lungs where oxygen is added and then moves it on to the arteries. This pumping action creates a relatively high pressure in the arteries and a low pressure in the veins.
Every part of your body needs oxygen. Your lungs take in oxygen when you breathe. It is the heartâs job to pump blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen, and then to pump this blood to every part of your body. The heart has two independent pumping systems, one on the right side and one on the left side. Each of these systems has 2 chambers: