Neuromusculoskeletal diagnosis

Question 1

Antalgic gait

Answer 1

Patient favors one leg by putting as little weight as possible on it, in order to reduce pain on that side.

Hip, knee, ankle, or foot pathology

Question 2

Choreic gait

Answer 2

Jerky twitching and dancing gait;
Huntington’s disease, rheumatic fever

Question 3

Deteriorating tandem gait

Answer 3

Worsening tandem walk while counting from 50 backwards.

early sign of alzheimer’s disease

Question 4

Drunken gait

Answer 4

classic wide based staggering gait seen in cerebellar disease

Question 5

Hemiplegia

Answer 5

Spastic leg is extended and rotated internally, the foot is inverted, and plantar flexed.
The limb is swung outward to keep foot from hitting the ground
Cerebrovascular accidents

Question 6

Scissor gait

Answer 6

stiff shuffling movement with the legs crossing over due to increased adductor tone.
Seen in cerebral palsy or paraplegia

Question 7

Sensory ataxic gait

Answer 7

wide based uneven gait with high steps and slapping of the feet on the ground.
seen in patients with dorsal column pathology
Tabes dorsalis, vitamin b12 deficiency, and diabetes mellitus

Question 8

Steppage gait

Answer 8

Patient has to excessively flex the hip and knee to allow the drop foot to clear the ground when walking
Seen with foot drop or peripheral neuropathy

Question 9

External Rotators of the hip Joint

Answer 9

Psoas and Piriformis

Question 10

Hip Flexor

Answer 10

Psoas

Question 11

Plantar flexors of the ankle joint

Answer 11

Gastrocnemius, Posterior Tibialis, Peroneus

Question 12

Dorsiflexor of the ankle joint

Answer 12

Anterior Tibialis