Stomping gait
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Conditions associated with a stomping gait

  • Friedreich's ataxia
    Friedreich's ataxia
    Friedreich's ataxia is an inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system, resulting in symptoms ranging from gait disturbance to speech problems; it can also lead to heart disease and diabetes....

  • Pernicious anemia
    Pernicious anemia
    Pernicious anemia is one of many types of the larger family of megaloblastic anemias...

  • Tabes dorsalis
    Tabes dorsalis
    Tabes dorsalis is a slow degeneration of the sensory neurons that carry afferent information. The degenerating nerves are in the dorsal columns of the spinal cord and carry information that help maintain a person's sense of position , vibration, and discriminative touch.-Cause:Tabes dorsalis is...

  • Peripheral neuropathy
    Peripheral neuropathy
    Peripheral neuropathy is the term for damage to nerves of the peripheral nervous system, which may be caused either by diseases of or trauma to the nerve or the side-effects of systemic illness....

  • Spinal cord disease
  • Multiple sclerosis
    Multiple sclerosis
    Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms...

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