This boy is nine years old, perfectly normal until the age six, and then he started twisting his body, first the right foot, then the left foot, then the right arm, then the left arm, then the trunk, and then by the time he arrived, within the course of one or two years of the disease onset, he could no longer walk, he could no longer stand.
اين پسر نه ساله است، كاملاً عادى تا سن شش سالگى، و ناگهان دچار كشيدى عضله شد، نخست پاى راستش بعد پاى چپش، سپس دست چپش، بعد هم تنه‌‌اش، وقتى كه آمد يك يا دو سالى از شروع بيماريش مى‌‌گذشت، ديگر قادر به راه رفتن و سرپا ايستادن نبود.