Shuffling gait, bradykinesia, stooped posture, and postural instability in Parkinson’s Disease | Dr Sudhir Kumar

medicoshub on Instagram: "🧠 Parkinson’s Disease – Understanding the Festinating Gait In Parkinson’s disease, degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta leads to classic Parkinsonian symptoms—resting tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and changes in gait. 🚶‍♂️ Festinating Gait is a hallmark feature: • Short, small shuffling steps • Steps may rapidly accelerate • Often preceded by freezing episodes, where the patient struggles to initiate movement This gait pattern o

Dr Sudhir Kumar on Instagram: "The patient is a 68-year-old woman with a 10-year history of Parkinson’s disease, presenting with advanced parkinsonian gait dysfunction. She demonstrates marked bradykinetic gait characterized by short shuffling steps, reduced stride length, and poor foot clearance, resulting in audible scuffing of the feet along the ground. There is reduced arm swing (typically bilateral in advanced disease) and difficulty with gait initiation, suggestive of freezing tendency, pa