Characteristics of gait ataxia in spinocerebellar degeneration assessed by means of simple quantitative method.
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.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002524:Cerebellar Ataxia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000379:methods; D013686:Telemetry