Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Difficulty standing
Difficulty in standing
HP:0003698
Rare diseases that can present with this18
Common30–79%
8- Distal myotilinopathy
- Early-onset progressive encephalopathy-spastic ataxia-distal spinal muscular atrophy syndrome
- Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, Okinawa type
- Kyphoscoliosis-lateral tongue atrophy-hereditary spastic paraplegia syndrome
- Miyoshi myopathy
- Neurodevelopmental delay-seizures-ophthalmic anomalies-osteopenia-cerebellar atrophy syndrome
- Northern epilepsy
- TK2-related mitochondrial DNA maintenance defect, myopathic form
Sometimes5–29%
8The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Standing instability
Difficulty standing
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