psychogenic gait

Etiology

• malingering
  • may be related to work-related injury

Pathology

• inconsistent with a lesion of the central nervous system

Clinical manifestations

• an excessive, elaborate gait that varies in appearance from moment to moment
• inconsistent, elaborate, often with expressions of great effort
• unconvincing displays of weakness of impairment
• extreme lurching without falling
• sudden genuflections
• chorea, dystoniam tremor, myoclonus may appear to be present

More general terms

• gait ataxia
• psychogenic movement disorder; psychomotor disorder