UTEP DPT Program

🧠Important Neurology Signs 🔹Babinski sign → Upper motor neuron lesion 🔹Hoffmann sign → Cervical cord lesion / UMN lesion 🔹Clonus → Upper motor neuron lesion 🔹Spasticity → Upper motor neuron lesion 🔹Kernig sign → Meningitis / meningeal irritation 🔹Brudzinski sign → Meningitis / meningeal irritation 🔹Romberg sign → Sensory ataxia (posterior column disease) 🔹Dysdiadochokinesia → Cerebellar dysfunction 🔹Intention tremor → Cerebellar lesion 🔹Nystagmus → Cerebellar or vestibular lesion 🔹Lhermitte sign → Multiple sclerosis / cervical cord demyelination 🔹Uhthoff phenomenon → Multiple sclerosis (symptoms worsen with heat) 🔹Cogan lid twitch → Myasthenia gravis 🔹Peek sign → Myasthenia gravis 🔹Chvostek sign → Hypocalcemia 🔹Trousseau sign → Hypocalcemia 🔹Cushing triad → Raised intracranial pressure 🔹Battle sign → Basilar skull fracture (mastoid ecchymosis) 🔹Raccoon eyes → Basilar skull fracture (periorbital ecchymosis) 🔹Cogwheel rigidity → Parkinson disease 🔹Lead-pipe rigidity → Parkinson disease 🔹Pill-rolling tremor → Parkinson disease 🔹Tinel sign → Carpal tunnel syndrome / nerve regeneration 🔹Phalen test → Carpal tunnel syndrome 🔹Pronator drift → Upper motor neuron lesion 🔹Trendelenburg sign → Superior gluteal nerve weakness 🔹Gower sign → Duchenne muscular dystrophy 🔹Argyll Robertson pupil → Neurosyphilis 🔹Marcus Gunn pupil → Optic nerve lesion (RAPD) 🔹Froment sign → Ulnar nerve palsy