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“Recumbent” gait: Relationship to the phenotype of “astasia‐abasia”?
Author(s) -
Boogaarts Hieronymus D.,
F. Abdo Wilson,
Bloem Bastiaan R.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.21716
Subject(s) - gait , physical medicine and rehabilitation , phenotype , psychology , neuroscience , medicine , biology , genetics , gene
Psychogenic gait disorders can present in many different ways. Among patients with a pure psychogenic gait disorder, buckling of the knee is the most common feature, followed by astasia‐abasia. Here, we describe one such patient with a very unusual gait disturbance that might be regarded as a variant of astasia‐abasia. The patient characteristics are described and discussed in a historical context. © 2007 Movement Disorder Society