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psychogenic gait
Etiology:
- malingering
- may be related to work-related injury
Pathology:
- inconsistent with a lesion of the central nervous system
Clinical manifestations:
- an excessive, elaborate gait that varies in appearance from moment to moment
- inconsistent, elaborate, often with expressions of great effort
- unconvincing displays of weakness of impairment
- extreme lurching without falling
- sudden genuflections
- chorea, dystoniam tremor, myoclonus may appear to be present
General
gait ataxia
psychogenic movement disorder; psychomotor disorder
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 16
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2012
- Baik JS, Lang AE.
Gait abnormalities in psychogenic movement disorders.
Mov Disord. 2007 Feb 15;22(3):395-9.
PMID: 17216648