Gowers sign

The Gowers sign ( Gowers maneuver ) describes the typical way in which patients with core weaknesses stand up from the prone position. Here, those affected climb up on their own body with the help of their arms. The underlying muscle weakness is typically a symptom of muscular dystrophy . The symptom is named after the British neurologist William Richard Gowers .

Gowers mark (graphic from the original Gowers publication, 1879)

Original description

• WR Gowers: Clinical lecture on pseudohypertrophic muscular paralysis. In: The Lancet , 1879, pp. Ii, 73-75.

(Note: Other authors give as the first description: WR Gowers: A manual of disease of the nervous system. Churchill, London 1886, 1, pp. 391–394.)

literature

• GB Wallace, RW Newton: Gowers' sign revisited . In: Arch Dis Child . 1989 Sep, 64 (9), pp. 1317-1319. PMID 2817955

Web links

• Gowers' sign at whonamedit.com