Gonda’s sign: One of the alternatinve method of eliciting
plantar response
This sign is named after the Ukrainian neuropsychiatrist
Viktor Gonda (1889–1959),
How to elicit gonad sign?
Gonda's sign is a clinical sign in which flexing and then
suddenly releasing the 4th toe elicits an extensor plantar reflex.
Clinical significance
- Gonda's sign is a found in patients with pyramidal tract lesions, and is one of a number of Babinski-like responses.
- These reflexes show a positive Babinski response when the reflexogenic area spreads up in the lower limb.
- They may be useful in eliciting the Babinski response when the patients are uncooperative or in patients whose soles are extremely sensitive
