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Prevention Of Pain For Hip Dysplasia

Health Encyclopedia: Walking/Gait Abnormalities

Definition

Walking abnormalities are unusual and uncontrollable walk patterns, usuallycaused by diseases or injuries to the legs, feet, brain, spine, or inner ear.


Alternative Names

Gait abnormalities


Considerations

The pattern of how a person walks is called their gait. Many different types ofwalking abnormalities are produced unconsciously. Most, but not all, are due to some physical condition.

Somewalking abnormalities are so characteristic that they have been gi...

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Hip fractures occur as a result of major or minor trauma. In elderly patients with bones weakened by osteoporosis, relatively little trauma, even walking, may result in a hip fracture.... Read more »

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