Godelier-Remlanger Symptom

The Godelier-Remlanger sign is a symptom named after the French physicians Charles Prosper Godelier (1813-1877) and Pierre Alfred Remlenger (1871-1964).

This symptom manifests itself in tuberculous spondylitis (tuberculous lesions of the spine) in the form of back pain, which intensifies when the body bends forward. In this case, the patient instinctively bends back to reduce pain.

Godelier and Remlanger first described this symptom in 1928 in their work on the diagnosis of tuberculous spondylitis. Since then, the symptom has been named after them and is used to recognize this disease in the early stages.

Thus, the Godelier-Remlenger symptom allows one to suspect tuberculous lesions of the spine in the presence of characteristic back pain when bending the torso forward. Timely recognition of this symptom is of great importance for early diagnosis and treatment of a dangerous disease.

Godelier-Remlenger syndrome

This disease occurs predominantly in women. In the first year of life, extremely rarely in preschool age. It is believed that the incidence of the disease begins somewhere in the second half of the first decade of life - that is, around 5 years. It is most often detected during examination by a neurologist, but if parents detect manifestations of qi