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Malvin Cole, MD
Department of Neurology University of Colorado School of Medicine 4200 E Ninth Ave Denver, CO 80262

Arch Neurol. 1990;47(11):1170.

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To the Editor.

—I would like to report the "rolling chair sign" in Parkinson's syndrome/disease.

A 76-year-old woman with multi-infarct dementia and a left-sided hemiplegia has a typical parkinsonian resting tremor of the right upper and lower extremities. After being examined, she was sitting in the waiting room in her wheelchair. Suddenly I saw the wheelchair rolling down the hall of our clinic. At first I thought it was because of her dementia and confusion but, on closer inspection, her right hand was resting on the wheel of the wheelchair and the tremor was involuntarily propelling the chair forward. Thus my term "the rolling chair sign." It has some practical significance in that these patients should not be placed near staircases, stoves, and the like while in their wheelchairs. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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