What’s wrong with stumbling?

Stumbling is considered to be a gait abnormality.1 It can be caused by cerebrovascular disease. As a result of neurological impairment due to cerebrovascular disease, patients may experience weakness in the affected limb, ataxia or hypertonia, and muscle spasms, resulting in a stumbling gait.2 It can also be seen in Parkinson’s disease. As Parkinson’s disease patients will have increased muscle tone, the patient can show panic gait and walking stumbling, a trotting gait, and in severe cases will not be able to stop or start effort and other phenomena, treatment can be given to patients oral medication for Parkinson’s such as Medobar, Senfro, etc. 3, can also be seen in rare diseases, such as multi-system atrophy patients can also appear walking stumbling. It is important to give the patient symptomatic treatment for the cause.