Planting Symptom

The Sitting Symptom is the inability to sit up in bed from a supine position without bending the legs at the knees and hips. This is one of the signs of lumbosacral radiculitis.

When trying to sit down, the patient is forced to bend his legs at the knees and hip joints, resting his feet on the bed. This helps him lift the pelvis and compensate for the weakened function of the back and abdominal muscles, which are usually involved in changing body position.

The reason for this disorder is damage to the roots and nerves innervating the muscles of the trunk and lower extremities, which leads to their weakening or paralysis. Most often, the Landing symptom occurs with radiculitis at the level of L4-L5 or L5-S1 vertebrae.

Thus, the Landing symptom is an important diagnostic sign indicating damage to the lower lumbar and upper sacral spinal nerves. Timely recognition of this symptom helps to correctly diagnose the disease and prescribe the necessary treatment.

**Squatting symptom** is a symptom of damage to peripheral nerves, characterized by the inability for a patient in a supine position with damage to the lumbar plexus (compression of the L4-L5 roots) or sacral plexus with incomplete shortening of one of the lower extremities to abduct the leg towards the gluteus maximus muscle with simultaneous by lifting the pelvis with bringing the knees and shins inward and