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, in cerebella ataxia, in which case there is dissociation between the movement of the body and legs, the former either lagging behind or being precipitately thrust forward. The gait may be grotesque, histrionic or dancing in Huntington’s chorea. It may be waddling in the case of weakness of the hip muscles, as in the dystrophies or spinal muscular atrophies. In the case of weakness or paralysis of the timbales antic us and perennial group of muscle the patient cannot stand on his heels and must raise the legs high in walking, the gait being known as step page. If the sole us and gastronomies are paralyzed, the patient cannot rise on his toes. The hysteric gait is bizarre, nondescript, sometime despite absence or paralysis, the hysteric patient can neither stand nor walk: or he may make a number of superfluous movements, crumple together and fall to the ground (without hurting himself).
At times (paralysis agates) the patient sways rooted to the ground before he start to walk, then runs rapidly forward with short steps and sometimes falls if he is not stopped. Similarly he may rapidly run backward as if drawn by an uncontrollable force, or sidewise. In the case of hemi plague walking sidewise is easier to the paralyzed then the healthy side.