The patient could not stand up from a seated position without using her hands to boost herself up. Others could do it easily, but not this young and otherwise robust woman. It wasn’t really a new problem, the young woman told her mother. She couldn’t even remember when she’d first started to use her arms to help her body go from sitting to standing.
Indeed, she had never given it much thought until a couple of weeks earlier, when the family had gotten together at her mother’s home in South Carolina. She’d gotten up out of her chair to get something when her sister announced, with a touch of surprise, ”Hey, I do that too!” Her sister, it turned out, also used her arms in order to stand up.
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