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Conditions
Inspection
Tone
Power
Reflexes
Sensation
Co-ordination
Gait
UMN
- Stroke
Spastic (Clasp knife)
Clonus
Brisk
+ve Hoffmans sign
Hemiplegic
- Abducted leg
- Swing in lateral arc
LMN
Fasciculation
Muscle wasting
Normal/
Reduced
Normal
Normal
MND
Syringomyelia
- LMN in arms
- UMN in legs
Fasciculation
Muscle wasting
- Hyperextension at MCP
- Flexion at IP
- Claw hands (advanced)
Dysarthria
Horners syndrome in
syringomyelia
Spastic (Clasp knife)
Brisk
+ve Hoffmans sign
Normal
High-stepped
- Due to foot drop
- Allow toes to clear ground
Parkinsons
(Extrapyramidal)
(Lead pipe) - Elbow
Cogwheel rigidity - Wrist
Bradykinesia
Normal
+ve Postural instability
pull test
Simian posture
- Stooped posture
- Lowered head
- Flexed knees & elbows
Shuffling, narrow-based
gait
Reduced arm swing
Cerebellar
- Ipsilateral
Normal
Rebound phenomenon
Normal
Truncal ataxia
(Vermis lesion)
Broad-based gait
- Looking ahead
(Differentiate from sensory
ataxia looking at feet)
Impaired heel to toe
-ve Rhombergs test
CMT
Normal
Palpable ulnar nerve
Symmetrical distal
weakness
Absent
Normal
Dysdiadochokinesis
Intention tremor
Past pointing
High-stepped
- Due to foot drop
- Allow toes to clear ground
+ve Rhombergs test
Skin changes
- Legs > Hands
- Dry, thin, loss of hair
Normal
Normal
Normal
Normal
High-stepped
- Proprioception loss at
ankles
+ve Rhombergs test
Wide-based gait
- Sensory ataxia
- Looking at feet
Motor
neuropathy
Skin changes
- Legs > Hands
- Dry, thin, loss of hair
Length-dependent
weakness
Starts when weakness
reaches knees
Reduced/ Absent
Distal Proximal
Normal
Normal
High-stepped
- Due to foot drop
- Allow toes to clear ground
Ulnar nerve
palsy
Muscle wasting
- Hypothenar eminence
- Thenar eminence spared
th
th
Claw hand at 4 , 5 finger
th
Ulnar deviation of 5 finger
Normal
Weakness of finger
ABduction and ADduction
Weakness of thumb
ADduction
th
Weakness of flexion of 4
th
and 5 finger
+ve Froments sign
Weakness of wrist flexion if
elbow lesion
Normal
th
Normal
Normal
Radial nerve
palsy
Normal
Tricep muscles intact
Wrist drop
Loss at 1 dorsal
interosseous space, dorsum
of thumb, index finger
st
Normal
Normal
Median nerve
palsy
Muscle wasting
- Thenar eminence
- Hypothenar eminence
spared
Ape-hand appearance
Normal
+ve Tinels and Phalens
sign
Weakness of thumb
ABduction, flexion,
opposition
Normal
Normal
Normal
C7 lesion
Normal
Normal
Normal
GBS
Facial weakness
Dysphasia
Dysarthria
Hypotonia
Reduced/ Absent
Normal