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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Usman Ali Akbar, M.B.B.S.[2]

Synonyms and keywords: Gait disturbance

Complete Differential Diagnosis

Gait abnormalities due to Drugs	Organic Diseases	Electrolyte imbalances	Vitamin Deficiency	Pyschiatric
	Appendicitis Cerebellar lesions Cerebral Palsy Cerebrovascular disease Chondrodystrophia Chondromalacia Patellae Damage of the symphysis Degenerative joint disease Discitis Drugs Artemether and lumefantrin Interferon gamma Perampanel Dystonia Encephalitis Foreign body in shoe Fredreich's Ataxia Hemophilia Hernias Hydrocephalus Leg length discrepancy Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease Local neoplasm Meningitis Metastases Multiple Sclerosis Neuromuscular disorders Osgood-Schlatter Disease Osteomalacia Osteochondritis Dissecans Osteomyelitis Parkinsonism Periostitis Poliomyelitis Polyneuropathy Poorly fitting shoes Rickets Sensory ataxia Septic Arthritis Sickle cell Disease Somatization Syndrome Splinter in foot Tabes Dorsalis Testicular torsion Trauma Viral arthritis	Hyponatremia Hypokalemia Hypomagnesemia	Vitamin B12 deficiency Vitamin E deficiency Copper Deficiency	Anxiety Depression

Persons suffering from peripheral neuropathy experience numbness and tingling in their hands and feet. This can cause difficulty in walking, climbing stairs and maintaining balance. Gait abnormality that results from chemotherapy is generally temporary in nature, though recovery times of six months to a year are common.

Specific abnormalities and examples of causes

Antalgic gait

User favors certain motions to avoid acute pain. [3]

• Trauma
• Osteoarthritis
• Pelvic girdle pain

Drunken gait/Cerebellar ataxia

Reeling in a style like that of an intoxicated person. [4]

• Ataxia
• Cerebellar lesions
• Cerebellar degeneration
• Intoxications

Festinating gait/Parkinsonian gait

Patient moves with short, jerky steps. Term derives from Latin "festino", or "to hurry". [5] [6] [7]

• Parkinson's disease

Pigeon gait

Torsional abnormalities. [8]

• Hip dysplasia

Propulsive gait

Stiff, with head and neck bent. [9]

• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Parkinson's disease

Steppage gait/High stepping gait

Toes point down. [10] [11] [12]

• Polio
• Multiple sclerosis

Scissor gait

Legs flexed slightly at the hips and knees, giving the appearance of crouching, with the knees and thighs hitting or crossing in a scissors-like movement. Often mixed with or accompanied by spastic gait, a stiff, foot-dragging walk caused by one-sided, long-term muscle contraction. Most common in patients with spastic cerebral palsy, usually diplegic and paraplegic varieties. The individual is forced to walk on tiptoe unless the dorsiflexor muscles are released by an orthaepedic surgical procedure. Muscle contractures of the adductors result in thighs and knees rubbing together and crossing in a manner analogous to scissors.

These features are typical, and usually result in some form and to some degree regardless of the mildness or severity of the spastic CP condition.

• rigidity and excessive adduction of the leg in swing
• plantar flexion of the ankle
• flexion at the knee
• adduction and internal rotation at the hip
• contractures of all spastic muscles
• complicated assisting movements of the upper limbs when walking [13].[14]

See Also

• Spastic diplegia
• Pernicious anemia
• Spastic paraplegia

Sensory ataxia gait/Stomping gait

Uncoordinated walking [15] [16] [17] [18]

• Friedreich's ataxia
• Pernicious anemia
  
• Tabes Dorsalis (Syphilis)

Spastic gait

Asymmetric foot dragging. [19] [20]

• Brain tumor
• Sturge-Weber syndrome
• Cerebral palsy

Trendelenburg gait

• weakness of the abductor muscles of the lower limb, principally gluteus medius

Waddling/Myopathic gait

Walking like a duck. [21] [22]

• Pregnancy

Magnetic gait

Feet seem attached to floor as if by a magnet. In magnetic gait, each step is initiated in a "wresting" motion carrying feet upward and forward. Magnetic gait can be visualized in terms of a powerful magnet being forcefully pulled from a steel plate.

• Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)

See also

• Ataxia
• Limp
• Foot drop
• Gait Abnormality Rating Scale

External links

• Children's Hospital Boston
• Classification
• Case Study
• Utah
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