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| pt favors on leg: pain on affected 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: Alzheimer's |
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| wide-based staggering gait: cerebellar disease |
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| shuffling gait with tendency to accelerate as lean forwards: Parkinson's |
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| spastic leg is extended and rotated internally, foot inverted and planter flexed, limb is swung outwards to keep foot off the ground: cerebrovascular accidents |
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| stiff shuffling movement with the legs crossing over due to increased adductor tone: cerebral palsy or paraplegia |
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| wide-based uneven gai with high steps and slapping of feet on ground seen with dorsal column pathology: tabes dorsalis, vit B12 deficiency or DM |
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| excessively flexed hip and knee to allow drop foot to clear ground: foot drop (peripheral neuropathy), LMNL |
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| pt leans to same side as weight bc paralysis of glut med or min: Trendelenburg gait seen in muscular dystrophy and pts with hip replacements |
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