"Wrestler’s Sign"
"Wrestler’s Sign"
This name has been given to the excessive effort in irrelevant muscle groups accompanied by prominent verbal grunts in patients with apparent ("functional") weakness. It may coexist with intermittent voluntary effort, collapsing weakness, co-contraction of agonist and antagonist muscles and inconsistency in clinical examination (e.g., inability to lift leg from couch when recumbent, but able to stand and walk).
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