Abnormal gait pattern with pictures

1. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Antalgic Gait
• refers to abnormal
pattern of walking
secondary to pain
that ultimately
causes a limp,
whereby the stance
phase is shortened
relative to the
swing phase.
Athritis

2. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
Propulsive gait
(Parkinsonian gait):
Characteristics of a
propulsive gait include
a stooping, rigid
posture and your head
and neck bending
forward. Your steps are
usually short and fast
to maintain your center
of gravity (festinating
gait).
Parkinson's disease

3. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Scissors gait:
• knees and thighs
hit or cross in a
scissors-like
pattern when you
walk. Your steps
may be slow and
small.
Cerebral Palsy

4. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Spastic gait
(hemiplegic gait)
• impaired natural
swing at the hip and
knee with leg
circumduction. The
pelvis is often tilted
upward on the
involved side to
permit adequate
circumduction. With
ambulation, the leg
moves forward and
then swings back
toward the midline
in a circular
movement.
Cerebral Palsy

5. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Steppage gait
(neuropathic gait)
• Weakness of
the dorsiflexors
of the foot
results in foot
drop and
dragging of
the toes during
the swing
phase of the
gait cycle.
Cerebral palsy,
muscular dystrophy,
Charcot Marie Tooth
disease,
ataxia-telangiectasia,
spinal muscular
atrophy,
peroneal
neuropathy, and
microvascular white-
matter disease

6. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Myopathic gait
• Hip abductor
weakness
results in an
inability to
stabilize the
pelvis during
the stance
phase
Systemic disease:
Hyperthyroidism
Hypothyroidism
Cushing’s syndrome
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyositis
Dermatomyositis
Muscular dystrophies:
Duchenne’s muscular
dystrophy
Becker’s muscular
dystrophy
Myotonic dystrophy

7. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Trendelenburg Gait
or Lurching Gait
• unilateral weakness of
the hip abductors.
• This weakness could be
due to superior gluteal
nerve damage or in 5th
lumbar spine lesion. This
condition makes it
difficult to support the
body’s weight on the
affected side.
muscular dystrophy

8. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Sensory Gait
• The sensory ataxic
gait occurs when
there is loss of this
propioreceptive
input. In an effort to
know when the feet
land and their
location, the patient
will slam the foot
hard onto the
ground in order to
sense it.
uncontrolled
diabetes

9. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Shuffling
gait
• A type of gait
(walking)
characterized
by by dragging
one's feet
along or
without lifting
the feet fully
from the
ground.
Parkinson's disease

10. Gait Pattern Condition Picture
• Crouching gait
• The ankles,
knees and hips
to flex while
you walk.
• The toes may
drag.
cerebral palsy