TITLE: Dual Task Interferences During Gait in People With Stroke: Effects of Cognitive Versus Motor Secondary Tasks Stroke is a central nervous system disorder caused by partial loss of brain function. On average, one American dies from stroke every 4 minutes. Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States experience a stroke. About 610,000 of these are first or new stroke occurrences. About 87% of all strokes are ischemic strokes, when blood flow to the brain is blocked. Stroke is a…
Hypothesis After analyzing the shoe wear patterns above, our team of forensic Pedorthists have gained valuable insight regarding the shoe-owner’s unique (abnormal) gait. Our leading theory describes gait mechanics that feature abnormalities including: severe overpronation and a low-gear toe off bilaterally. The shoes have clearly been used for for too long, possibly on hard, rough surfaces, as the forefoot and heel are starting to wear past the midsole, exposing deeper layers. Evidence 1)…
Toe Off/Pre-swing Gait Phase Gait is the manner in which a person walks and can be described using terms such as stride, stride length, step, step length, and cadence. According to Lippert, (2011) stride is defined as the distance from the point when one foot touches the ground to the point when the same foot touches the ground again. Stride length is the total distance traveled during the gait cycle. A step is one half of a stride and cadence is walking speed (p. 339). In addition, there are…
assistance is to show the muscles what a normal gait cycle is. It also allows for a person to work these muscles even if they are not fully able by themselves. The robot assistance has been shown to help many victims with performance in functional tests like the 6-minute walking test and the Up and Go Test. It was also seen in balance, mobility, and strength that robots can help establish a better base for these variables that play such a major role in gait (Mazzoleni). These benefits are the…
2 The PMNS was first described in 1996 in Vietnam3, although there are some previous descriptions in India and Sri Lanka4, 5. The heterogeneous clinical picture is characterized by fever, behavior abnormalities and ataxic gait; the CSF shows typically lymphocytic pleocytosis with hyperproteinorrachia. The treatment is not consistently performed or consensual; the clinical course is usually benign6. No antibodies have been described in association with PMNS.…
that presents with abnormal, uncoordinated movements. Ataxic gait, an unsteady, staggering gait, typically occurs with this condition. In the patient’s initial evaluation, the medical diagnosis was pain in right knee (M25.561) and pain in left knee (M25.562). The patient’s treatment diagnosis, given by the physical therapist (PT), was pain in right & left knee, generalized muscle weakness (M62.81), and unspecified abnormalities of gait and mobility (R26.9). The patient was previously scheduled…
Hi Ahemd! Your discussion post is really informative, thank you for sharing such a great information. I agree on your statement that most common injury level of cervical spine are C6-C7. Cervical spine injury is the most frequent injury in all spinal cord injury, shown 55% of all spinal cord injury (Torretti and Sengupta, 2007). The most widely recognized missed fracture in the spine are at C1-C2 and C6-C7, the reason being deficient radiological examination as the body structure systems isn't…
Functional Movement Disorders have been prevalent in the healthcare community for many years making up 16% of patients referred to a neurologic clinic.1 However, this group of neurological disorders has undergone numerous name changes, which has created confusion on the appropriate terms and defining factors. When healthcare professionals cannot agree on a common definition for a condition, it demonstrates a lack of understanding for the pathology. Functional Movement Disorders share the same…
Introduction and background Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease was first discovered by French neurologist [1] Jean Martin Charcot and his student Pierre Marie. At the same time, British neurologist [2] Howard Henry Tooth described the same condition in his Cambridge university dissertation. Both referred to the disease as peroneal muscular atrophy, and it was later renamed Charcot-Marie-Tooth after the three surgeons who discovered it in 1886 [3]. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is known as the most…
complete differential diagnoses Actual medical Conditions: Impaired Mobility and Gait (2.) Recurrent fall (3). Unexplained emotional outburst (4.) Caregiver Fatigue (5.) Gout (6.) Hypertension Potential Medical Conditions: Dementia (2) Depression(3) Delirium (4) Chronic Pain (5) Osteoarthritis (6) Syncopal Episode (7) Transient Ischemic attack (8) Anemia Complete Differential Diagnosis: 1) Unspecified abnormalities of gait and mobility, 2) Repeated Falls, 3) Caregiver Burden, 4) Hypertension,…