Gait
The gait may be spastic, stiff, with the legs extended, the feet shuffling. It may be hemiplegic that is the lower extremity is held stiff and circumfused in walking. In bilaterally spastic limbs as in cerebral diploid or ordinary paraplegia there is cross progression or scissor gait. The patient may take very short steps. The gait may be unsteady, the step irregular, jerky ataxic, the ledge being flung aimlessly or lifted unduly high from the ground. The patient watches his step in tab tic ataxia. He may be very unsteady, drunken, (Read on …)