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A Walking Stick for a Pure Akinesia Patient

Yutaka Hirashima

Hideo Hamada

Takashi Shibata

Hiroaki Ikeda

Shunro Endo

We describe a 63-year-old female patient with pure akinesia whose gait was fa cilitated by a handmade converted walking stick. A posterior ventral pallidotomy had been performed, but it did not alleviate symptoms. Her husband made a walking stick with a wire loop at the bottom, perpendicular to the walking direction. When the patient stepped over the loop, the frozen gait was improved. This converted walking stick is easily made and inexpensive. Although the walking stick did not improve the patient's gait radically, use of the converted walking stick effectively improved the patient's daily life because successful treatment of pure akinesia cannot be established.

Key Words: Pure akinesia • Walking stick • Paradoxical movement • Frozen gait

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Vol. 15, No. 3, 245-247 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/154596830101500313


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