Physician Revives a Dying Art: The Physical

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Wed Oct-13-10 11:32 AM
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Physician Revives a Dying Art: The Physical

STANFORD, Calif. — For a 55-year-old man with a bad back and a bum knee from too much tennis, Dr. Abraham Verghese was amazingly limber as he showed a roomful of doctors-in-training a twisting, dancelike walk he had spied in the hospital corridor the day before.

He challenged them to diagnose it. Hemiplegia? Sensory ataxia? Chorea? Spastic diplegia?

“It would be a shame to have someone with a gait that’s diagnostic, and yet we can’t recognize it,” he said.

It was their introduction to a rollicking workshop on abnormal gaits that soon had them shuffling, staggering and thrashing about, challenging one another. Parkinson’s? Neuropathy? Stroke?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/health/12profile.html?th&emc=th

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Wed Oct-13-10 11:34 AM
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1. Ministry of Silly Walks is back in action, eh?

Edited on Wed Oct-13-10 11:35 AM by valerief

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

(Not sure what's at the OP's link. Don't subscribe to NYT.)

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