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The Babinski Reflex, also known as the Plantar Reflex, is a physical reflex shown when the bottom of the foot is stimulated by having a blunt instrument, i.e. tongue depressor, run across it.
1 The abnormal plantar reflex, or Babinski reflex, is the elicitation of toe extension from the wrong receptive field, that is, the sole of the foot. 2  Thus a noxious stimulus to the sole of the foot produces extension of the great toe instead of the normal flexion response. The plantar reflex is a nociceptive segmental spinal reflex that serves the purpose of protecting the sole of the foot. 2  The clinical significance lies in the fact that the abnormal response reliably indicates metabolic or structural abnormality in the corticospinal system upstream from the segmental reflex.