21st November 2023

Gait Disorders

The following table is adapted from the paper ‘Gait and its Assessment in Psychiatry’ by Sanders and Gillig (2010) and describes the disorders in gait commonly encountered in psychiatry. I have simplified this table to indicate how the gait is commonly described for exam purposes.

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