The following Conditions are related to Difficulty walking

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  • Friedreich's disease

    Friedreich's Ataxia is a genetic, progressive, neurologic movement disorder that typically becomes apparent before adolescence. Initial symptoms may include unsteady posture, frequent falling, and progressive difficulties walking due to an impaired ability to coordinate voluntary movements (ataxia). Affected individuals may also develop abnormalities of certain reflexes; characteristic foot deformities; increasing incoordination of the arms an  Read More

  • Spinal ataxia, hereditofamilial

    Friedreich's Ataxia is a genetic, progressive, neurologic movement disorder that typically becomes apparent before adolescence. Initial symptoms may include unsteady posture, frequent falling, and progressive difficulties walking due to an impaired ability to coordinate voluntary movements (ataxia). Affected individuals may also develop abnormalities of certain reflexes; characteristic foot deformities; increasing incoordination of the arms an  Read More

  • Spinal muscular atrophy type iii

    Spinal muscular atrophy type iii, a rare hereditary disorder characterised by the progressive loss of motor neurons-the nerve cells that regulate voluntary movement-causes muscle weakness and wasting. Type 3 is a milder type of SMA.Although there is currently no cure for SMA type 3, since 2016 there have been medicines that can delay or even stop the disease's main forms from progressing.Treatment:  Read More