Risk: The smoking time-bomb is located on the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra. With an explosive force 13,000 times the power of the atomic bomb that annihilated Hiroshima, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa killed more than 36,000 people and radically altered global weather and temperatures for years afterwards.
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is a condition that features a group of typical symptoms, including pain (often burning type), tenderness, and swelling of an extremity associated with varying degrees of sweating, warmth and/or coolness, flushing, discoloration, and shiny skin.
The normal response is a âknee jerkâ. This is an example of a reflex, which is an involuntary muscular response elicited by the rubber hammer tapping the associated tendon. When reflex responses are absent this could be a clue that the spinal cord, nerve root, peripheral nerve, or muscle has been damaged.When reflex response is abnormal, it may be due to the disruption of the sensory (feeling) or motor (movement) nerves or both.To determine where the neural problem may be, the physician tests reflexes in different parts of the body.See the following examples in the chart below.hen reflex response is abnormal, it may be due to the disruption of the sensory (feeling) or motor (movement) nerves or both. To determine where the neural problem may be, the physician tests reflexes in different parts of the body. See the following examples in the chart below.