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Characteristics of Gait Ataxia in Spinocerebellar Degeneration Assessed by Means of Simple Quantitative Method
Author(s) -
Miyazaki Motoji,
Kitahara Yoshisuke,
Yorifuji Shiro,
Miki Hitoshi,
Fujita Masashi
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1982.tb03112.x
Subject(s) - gait , gait analysis , physical medicine and rehabilitation , heel , ataxic gait , gait cycle , foot (prosody) , medicine , ataxia , psychology , anatomy , neuroscience , physics , linguistics , philosophy , kinematics , classical mechanics
Cerebellar ataxic gait was compared with normals by a simple quantitative method. Strain gauges attached to the heel, the first and the fifth metatarsal areas of a shoe, were used and the gait was telemetrically recorded. A natural and one per second click sound‐synchronized gait was analyzed. A contact sequence of the three areas of the sole, the stride time, the stance‐phase time and the foot contact pattern were compared between patients and normals. All of these items disclosed different results in the two groups.