Gordon's sign

When Gordon reflex, according to the neurologist Alfred Gordon (1874-1953), is one of the so-called pyramidal tract signs that point to damage to central motor neurons.

In the kneading of the calf muscles results, as with the other pyramidal tract signs also, to a tonic dorsiflexion of the big toe and often leads to a spreading of the digits II to V.

More pyramidal tract signs are the reflexes after Joseph Babinski ( Babinski reflex), Gordon, Hermann Oppenheim ( Oppenheim reflex) and Adolf von Strümpell ( Strümpell characters), which are sometimes referred to as reflexes of Babinski group.

These reflexes are physiologically in newborns and infants, in adults obligate pathological.

  • Reflex
  • Disease symptom in neurology
Plantar reflex Oppenheim's sign
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