TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Gait Disorder A1 - Larsh, Travis R. A1 - Mendoza-Sengco, Paola Maria L. A1 - Zygmunt, Alexander M. A1 - Wu, Steve W. A2 - Hershey, Andrew D. PY - 2023 T2 - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatric Neurology AB - Independent ambulation is a critical gross motor skill achieved early in childhood. Various neurologic disorders can manifest in infancy such that normal gait development is limited or delayed. In progressive neurologic conditions, children may never acquire independent walking or may regress, leading to loss of ambulation. Before discussing different abnormal gait phenomenologies, a brief review of normal gait development is provided. Included in this chapter is also a summary of nonneurologic causes for gait problems. Finally, as we discuss neurologic differential diagnoses for gait disorder, it is important to recognize that gait dysfunction often coexists with other abnormal neurologic symptoms in the context of global assessment of neurologic disorders in children and adolescents. SN - PB - McGraw Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/13 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195236071 ER -