Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Shuffling gait
Shuffled walk
HP:0002362
What it means
A type of gait (walking) characterized by by dragging one's feet along or without lifting the feet fully from the ground.
Rare diseases that can present with this20
Very common80–99%
2Common30–79%
7Sometimes5–29%
11- Atypical juvenile parkinsonism
- Autosomal dominant adult-onset proximal spinal muscular atrophy
- Autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia
- Hereditary late-onset Parkinson disease
- Mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration
- Mohr-Tranebjaerg syndrome
- Ogden syndrome
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
and 3 more in this range
The 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
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