CH06: Stance and Gait

Question 1

T/F woman’s steps being quicke and shorter (p. 127)

Answer 1

TRUE

Question 2

percent of stance phase (p. 127)

Answer 2

65%

Question 3

Transection of the neuraxis between the red and vestibular nuclei leads to the exaggeration of these antigravity reflexes (p. 128)

Answer 3

Decerebrate rigidity

Question 4

Marching in place revealing a rotation in the yaw plane (p. 129)

Answer 4

Unterberger or Fukada stepping tests

Question 5

marked swaying or falling with the eys closed but not with the eyes open– loss of postural sense not of cerebellar function (p. 129)

Answer 5

Romberg Test

Question 6

wide base, unsteadiness, irregularity of steps, lateral veering

Answer 6

Cerebellar gait

Question 7

difference of cerebellar and reeling gait (p. 131)

Answer 7

Short distance able to walk on narrow base

Question 8

Gait problem with oscillopsia (p. 131)

Answer 8

Gait disorder of vestibulopathy

Question 9

T/F Gait disorder of vestibilopathy has a positive Romberg sign (p. 131)

Answer 9

FALSE

Question 10

Sense of being pushed (pulse) rather than of imbalance (p. 131)

Answer 10

Toppling Gait

Question 11

Principal observable feature of sensory gait ataxia (p. 131)

Answer 11

Brusqueness of movement, stamping of feet

Question 12

Most specific clue of gait ataxia (p. 131)

Answer 12

Exaggerated when deprived of visual cues

Question 13

Patients with this gait, if they fall, they cannot rise without help, cannot get into all fours (p. 131)

Answer 13

Gait ataxia

Question 14

Feature of this gait is circumduction (p. 132)

Answer 14

Spastic gait

Question 15

Gait decribed as though wading waist- deep in water (p. 132)

Answer 15

Paraplegic gait

Question 16

Feature of this gait is a step backward inducing a series of quickening steps or retropulsoin festination (p. 132)

Answer 16

Parkinsonian gait

Question 17

Gait with waltzing character (p. 134)

Answer 17

Choreoathetotic gait

Question 18

means severe forward bending of the trunk at the waist (p. 134)

Answer 18

Camptocormia

Question 19

Triad of NPH (p. 135)

Answer 19

Gait problem, incontinence, mental deterioration

Question 20

term used to descrieb a psychogenic gait disorder; although unable to either stand or walk, display more or less normal use of their legs while in bed and have an otherwise normal PE (p. 137)

Answer 20

Astasia- abasia