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| The patient favors one leg by putting as little weight as is possible on it due to pain on that side |
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| Jerky twitching and dancing gait: Huntington’s disease, Rheumatic fever. |
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| Worsening tandem walk while counting from 50 backwards is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease |
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| This is the classic wide-based staggering gait seen in cerebellar disease |
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| Shuffling gait with the tendency to accelerate as the patient leans forwards seen in Parkinson’s disease |
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| spastic leg is extended and rotated internally, The foot is inverted and plantar flexed and the limb is swung outwards to keep the foot off the ground seen in cerebrovascular accidents |
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| Stiff shuffling movement with the legs crossing over due to increased adductor tone seen in cerebral palsy or paraplegia |
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| Wide-based uneven gait with high steps and slapping of the feet on the ground seen in patients with dorsal column pathology as in tabes dorsalis |
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| Patient has to excessively flex the hip and knee to allow the drop foot to clear the ground when walking seen with foot drop [peripheral neuropathy] |
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| The patient leans to the same side as the weight is being placed. This is due to either paralysis of the gluteus medius and minimus muscles and may be also seen in patients with hip replacements; aka Trendelenburg gait seen in muscular dystrophy and patients with hip replacements |
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