Strümpell's sign

When Strümpell characters or Strümpell reflex (after Adolf von Strümpell ) is one of the so-called pyramidal tract signs that point to damage to central motor neurons.

With knee flexion against resistance, occurs, as in the other pyramidal tract signs also a tonic dorsiflexion of the big toe and often a spreading of the digits II to V.

More pyramidal tract signs are the reflexes after Joseph Babinski ( Babinski reflex), Gordon ( Gordon - reflex ), Hermann Oppenheim ( Oppenheim reflex) and Chaddock ( Chaddock reflex), 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 Gordon's sign Oppenheim's sign Chaddock-Reflex
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