Asahi T, Hirashima Y, Hamada H, Shibata T, Ikeda H, Endo S
Department of Neurosurgery, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2001;15(3):245-7. doi: 10.1177/154596830101500313.
We describe a 63-year-old female patient with pure akinesia whose gait was facilitated 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.
我们描述了一位63岁的纯运动不能女性患者，其步态通过一根手工改制的拐杖得到了改善。患者曾接受过腹后侧苍白球切开术，但症状并未缓解。她的丈夫制作了一根底部带有垂直于行走方向的金属丝环的拐杖。当患者跨过这个环时，冻结步态得到了改善。这种改制拐杖制作简便且价格低廉。尽管这根拐杖并没有从根本上改善患者的步态，但由于纯运动不能的有效治疗方法尚未确立，使用改制拐杖有效地改善了患者的日常生活。
