Article

Ambulation requires significant motor coordination. Because of inherent
differences in body proportions, level of coordination, motivation, and other
factors, each individual gait pattern is unique. However, despite the existence
of these individual differences that contribute to each person's own unique
walking style, there are highly repeatable gait sequences, allowing
characterization of normal gait patterns and identification of gait disturbance.
This article briefly reviews neural control of human ambulation, basic
kinematics, and kinetics of normal human gait, and describes the pathophysiology
and clinical presentations of spastic hemiparetic and paraparetic, ataxic, and
Parkinsonian gait patterns.
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