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    The document describes four different types of gait or walking patterns: hemiplegic gait, spastic paraparesis gait, Parkinson's disease gait, and cerebellar gait. Hemiplegic gait involves circumduction of the leg and is caused by upper motor neuron lesions from conditions like stroke or spinal cord injury. Spastic paraparesis gait has a scissors-like motion of the legs and is associated with spastic leg paresis and caused by conditions like multiple sclerosis or spinal cord lesions. Parkinson's disease gait is hesitant with shuffling steps and freezing, and is due to insufficient dopamine. Cerebellar gait is unsteady with short, wide steps and is caused

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    The document describes four different types of gait or walking patterns: hemiplegic gait, spastic paraparesis gait, Parkinson's disease gait, and cerebellar gait. Hemiplegic gait involves circumduction of the leg and is caused by upper motor neuron lesions from conditions like stroke or spinal cord injury. Spastic paraparesis gait has a scissors-like motion of the legs and is associated with spastic leg paresis and caused by conditions like multiple sclerosis or spinal cord lesions. Parkinson's disease gait is hesitant with shuffling steps and freezing, and is due to insufficient dopamine. Cerebellar gait is unsteady with short, wide steps and is caused

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    Gait Pattern

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    The document describes four different types of gait or walking patterns: hemiplegic gait, spastic paraparesis gait, Parkinson's disease gait, and cerebellar gait. Hemiplegic gait involves circumduction of the leg and is caused by upper motor neuron lesions from conditions like stroke or spinal cord injury. Spastic paraparesis gait has a scissors-like motion of the legs and is associated with spastic leg paresis and caused by conditions like multiple sclerosis or spinal cord lesions. Parkinson's disease gait is hesitant with shuffling steps and freezing, and is due to insufficient dopamine. Cerebellar gait is unsteady with short, wide steps and is caused

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    Gait Description Associated signs Causes

    Hemiplegia Circumduction gait Difficulty with balance, Upper motor neuron


    The foot is plantar flexed motor activities, speech, lesion from any of
    and the leg is swung in a swallowing, stiffness of the causes: Stroke
    lateral arc (semicircle) muscles, muscle spasm, (especially of the
    depression. Problems corticospinal tract),
    with developmental spinal cord injury
    milestones, behavioural (specifically Brown-
    problem, mental Sequard syndrome),
    development in children. traumatic brain
    injury, encephalitis,
    meningitis,
    haemorrhages,
    neoplasms, cerebral
    palsy, MS
    Spastic paraparesis Scissors gait Spastic leg paresis, MS, spinal cord
    Combined effects of hyperreflexia, clonus, lesions, trauma,
    spasticity, unco- extensor plantar hereditary, herniated
    ordination and weakness reflexes, arms affected IV discs, infections
    of both legs. as well. Tropical Spastic
    The legs are flexed may also have paraparesis (HTLV-
    slightly at the hip, thighs extraspinal neurological associated
    are adducted and legs deficits (eg. myelopathy or
    bump together and cross Spinocerebellar, ocular chronic progressive
    over each other in a symptoms, mental myelopathy), caused
    scissors movement. retardation, dementia, by Human T-
    There are short steps, polyneuropathy) lymphotropic virus
    side-to-side trunk
    movements and
    circumduction of legs.
    The toes never seem to
    leave the floor.
    Parkinson’s disease Hesitation in starting. Tremor, bradykinesia, Insufficient
    Shuffling instability, lead pipe, dopamine
    Freezing: May freeze in cog-wheel rigidity production by the
    mid-stride substantial nigra
    Festination: Small
    shuffling steps
    Propulsion: stiff with
    head and neck bent,
    Retropulsion: patient is
    easily pushed backward
    and may fall backward
    spontaneously
    Diminished arm swing,
    appear to fall forward as
    they walk and have
    difficulty making a turn
    Cerebellar Ataxic gait Asynergy, dysmetria, Focal: stroke,
    Unsteady drunken gait dyschronometria, infection, tumour
    with cautious short dysdiadochokinesia, Exogenous: alcohol,
    steps, which is wide- postural instability, antiepileptics,
    based or reeling on a intention tremor, cannabis
    narrow base, the patient dysarthria, peculiar B12 deficiency,
    staggers towards the writing hereditary, Arnold
    affected side if there is a Chiari malformation,
    unilateral cerebellar brain degeneration
    hemisphere lesion from alcohol, normal
    pressure
    hydrocephalus etc

    Hemiplegic gait
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y160w4sAQNw&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtqWxBUd94I
    Spastic gait
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgxjRyPe2w&feature=related
    Parkinsonian Gait
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86omOwx0Hk&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylHZWO17W70&feature=related
    ataxic gait
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBlrp-Ok38E&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpiEprzObIU

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