Muscular Dystrophy | NEJM

Video 1: In this film from 1910, a boy demonstrates clinical maneuvers that are still used today in gene-therapy trials for Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy. The boy has pseudohypertrophy of the calf muscles, waddling gait, toe walking, and lumbar lordosis, features suggestive of muscular dystrophy. Video 2: In this film from 1910, a boy demonstrates clinical maneuvers that are still used today in gene-therapy trials for Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy. The boy has Gowers’ sign (rises from a supine position by using his arms to climb up his thighs) and lumbar lordosis, features suggestive of muscular dystrophy. See the full Image in Clinical Medicine here: