CO-ORDINATION AND GAIT

Question 1

Spastic gait and cerebellar ataxic gait

Answer 1

Spastic - UMN

hemiparetic - Flexed upper limbs and extension of lower limbs.

Hip circumduction with hip swing

diplegic - scissoring gait - veloceraptor walking

Cerebellar ataxic gait - drunk walk. lack of coordination and balance. Broad base and sway

Question 2

Sensory ataxic gait: tabetic and vertiginous gaits

Answer 2

Loss of coordination due to joint space sense

Tabetic - high foot stomp, walk in dark

Vertiginous - Loos like drunk walk but postive rombergs

Question 3

Cortical lesion gait and High Stepping gait and Antalgic gait

Answer 3

Cortical Lesion Gait

Frontal Lobe - slow shuffling gait

March a petit pas - short rapid and tapping stepsm large arm swing

Gait apraxia - cant walk

High Stepping gait -foot drop, cannot dorsiflex