Characteristic form of standing up from squatting in Miyoshi's distal muscular dystrophy

A 27-year-old woman with Miyoshi's distal muscular dystrophy devised a uniq ue form of standing up from a squatting position; She held her ankles with her hands to support the weight transfer, fixed the heels, extended the kne es to elevate the hips, raised the upper half of the body, and finally stoo d up. This strategy illustrates the characteristic and specific distributio n of the wasted muscle in this disease. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.