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Considering this, what causes balance and gait problems?

Problems with gait, balance, and coordination are often caused by specific conditions, including:

• joint pain or conditions, such as arthritis.
• multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Meniere's disease.
• brain hemorrhage.
• brain tumor.
• Parkinson's disease.
• Chiari malformation (CM)
• spinal cord compression or infarction.

Furthermore, how do you fix gait abnormalities? Physical therapy can also be used to help treat walking abnormalities. During physical therapy, you'll learn exercises designed to strengthen your muscles and correct the way you walk. People with a permanent walking abnormality may receive assistive devices, such as crutches, leg braces, a walker, or a cane.

Secondly, what is a gait disorder?

Gait abnormality is a deviation from normal walking (gait). Normal gait requires that many systems, including strength, sensation and coordination, function in an integrated fashion. Many common problems in the nervous system and musculoskeletal system will show up in the way a person walks.

What are the types of gait?

Gait Abnormalities

• Hemiplegic Gait. The patient stands with unilateral weakness on the affected side, arm flexed, adducted and internally rotated.
• Diplegic Gait.
• Neuropathic Gait.
• Myopathic Gait.
• Choreiform Gait.
• Ataxic Gait.
• Parkinsonian Gait.
• Sensory Gait.