BACKGROUND Exercise programs are presumed to rehabilitate gait disorders and to reduce the risk of falling in dementia patients. This study aimed to analyze the specific effects of multicomponent exercise on gait disorders and to determine the association between gait impairments and the risk of falling in dementia patients before and after intervention. METHODS We conducted an 8-week multico...

objectives: this study aimed to compare elderly fallers and non fallers by balance test under dual tasks conditions. methods & materials: this study was a analyse-comparative study. subjects were chosen from three parks of tehran. subjects were 20 older adults with no history of falls (aged 72.60±5years) and 21 older adults with a history of 2 or more falls in the last one year (aged 74.50±6 ye...

BACKGROUND Decline in cognitive performance is associated with gait deterioration. Our objectives were: 1) to determine, from an original study in older community-dwellers without diagnosis of dementia, which gait parameters, among slower gait speed, higher stride time variability (STV) and Timed Up & Go test (TUG) delta time, were most strongly associated with lower performance in two cognitiv...

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (sCJD) usually presents with typical clinical signs. Prodromal symptoms lasting for several weeks are followed by dementia, myoclonus, ataxia and abnormalities of vision (1). Supranuclear gaze palsies accompanying sCJD have rarely been reported. Some of these reported cases were initially diagnosed as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and the diagnosis was ...

1 of 3 DESCRIPTION A previously healthy 82-year-old lady presented with abnormal sensation in her fi ngers which she described as ‘feeling like bananas’. There was an additional history of deteriorating handwriting and a sense of imbalance when walking dating back 6 months. She obtained a score of 26 out of 30 on the mini mental state examination. She had gait ataxia, being unable to perform ta...

The project GAIMS [ECTRIMS 2013 P800] aims at developing a gait measuring system particularily suited for the clinical routine, and providing a reference database with the gait characteristics of many MS patients (MSP) and healthy people (HP). As the gait impairments are related to the disease progression, defining an objective and quantitative score based on the gait characteristics would be u...

A 66-year-old woman presented in June, 1998 with a 3week history of intermittent confusion, unsteadiness, slurred speech, and fuzzy vision. She had had mild gait unsteadiness for over 1 year and for 6 months had complained of malaise and a poor appetite with 10 kg weight loss. She had had headaches for 3 weeks before admission, which she believed was a mild form of her longstanding migraine. Ex...

To cite: Gupta M, Singh R, Singh K, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013008932 DESCRIPTION A 53-year-old man presented with gradually progressive difficulty in walking, excessive lethargy and forgetfulness of 3 months duration. There was a noticeable decrease in verbal spontaneity, initiative and occasional episodes of urinary incontinence. ...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of ethanol on gait in patients with essential tremor (ET). METHODS Using a three-dimensional opto-electronic gait analysis system, the authors analyzed gait at free-speed walking, at a given velocity, and during tandem gait. Patients with ET with advanced disease were examined before and after a small oral dose of ethanol. The results of the patients with ET were...