CHAPTER 33.
LOWER LIMBS.Ankles
* Feet * Heels
* Hips * Knees
* Legs * Nates
* Tendo-Achillis * Thighs
* Toes * WalkingWalking.
Walking :-
Air, feels as if
stepping on, after walking a while :-Nat-m.
Ascending and
descending :-(See
Motion Ascending, Descending,
Chapter 35 :
Rest, Position, Motion.)
Aggravation and
amelioration :-(See
Motion Aggravation,
Amelioration, Chapter
35 : Rest,
Position, Motion.)
Chorea, degenerates
into hurried running :-Stram.
Ars-h., Kali-br.,
Verat.
Awkward :-
Lach.
Clumsy, at
night :-Lith-c.
Diabetes, weak,
in :-Nat-s.
Dropsy, in, of
pericardium :-Apoc.
Heavy, dragging, in
spermatorrhœa :-Gels.
Hobbling gait
(ague
suppressed by Cinchona) :-
Nat-m.Left, a hindrance in,
she walked as if treading on hard peas :-Nux-m.
Nervous, from,
causes :-Mag-p.
Power, impaired
(chronic
constipation) :-
Coca.Stairs, when going up,
muscles seem to refuse to act so she was in danger of
falling :-Phos.
Step, could
hardly :-Zinc.
Spontaneous, left, in
luxation :-Coloc.
Typhus, after,
paralysis of extensors of left foot :-Crot-h.
Falling :-
Nux-m.
Without apparent
cause :-Nat-c.
(See Difficult ;
also Hip Disease.)
Bottom, felt no, under,
could not rise :-# Atrop-s.
Dragging :-
# Atrop-s.,
Cocc., Con., Iris,
Mygal., NUX-V.,
Tarent.
Dragging, left, in
chorea :-Cupr-a.,
Lach.Dragging, direction of
steps towards left :-Lach.
Dragging, left, after
vertigo :-Cypr.
Dragging, in softening
of brain :-Phos.
Feet, falls over his
own :-Stram.
Foot, must step higher
with right :-Bad.
Left, cannot put, to
ground, only when standing(affection
of knee) :- Mag-c.Lift, partial inability
to, in order to step up stairs, caused by tendons being contracted
and shortened :-Syph.
Raising, difficulty in,
with frequent stumbling :-Zinc.
Shuffling, as if
dragged along :-Sec.
Walking :-
Attempting, on, pressed
hand upon loin and slid feet along ground as if a paretic condition(posterior
spinal sclerosis) :-
Pic-ac.
Support, will not, him,
falls from side to side :-Ruta.
Gressus
gallinaceus :-
Aur.,
LACH.,
Mag-p., SIL.
Gressus
vaccinus :-
Cic.,
PHOS.
Soles, does not step
properly on, they tilt inward and walking is done on outer edge of
foot :-
Cic.
Spinal, with,
complaints :-
Iod.,
Sec.
Heavy gait :-
Iris.
Inability :-
(See
Legs Paralysis.)
Angina pectoris,
in :-
Tab.
Child æt. 9
(chorea) :-
Asaf.
Diabetes, in :-
Uran-n.
Gonorrhœa, after
suppressed :-
Thuj.
Partial
paralysis :-
Atrop-s.
Phlegmasia alba dolens,
in :-
Nat-s.
Rising, on, after
sitting, falls back again :-
Ruta.
Seems
impossible :-
Asc-t.
Injuries :-
Concussion of spine,
walks with a rolling motion :-
Hyper.
Cannot
(after
a fall on coccyx) :-
Hyper.
Fall, after a, could
not, dread of motion, screamed if one attempted to lift her from one
place to another, must be held on lap :-
Hyper.
Irksome :-
Kali-c.
Learning :-
Child will not stand,
loses flesh :-
Calc-p.,
Nat-m.
Difficult :-
Calc.,
Sulph.
Limping
(See
Feet ; also Hip
Disease.) :-
Iod., Rumx.,
Staph.,
Sulph., Trom.
Locomotor
ataxia :-
(See
Difficult, Staggering ;
also Spinal cord
Atrophy, Chapter 31 :
Neck and Back.)
Irresolute gait :-
Arg-n.
For 4 or 5 weeks,
feeling when walking as if left foot were pulled around inward,
worse for last 2 weeks, so that he sometimes looked to see if it
were really so :-
Psor.
Painful :-
Headache, in
sick :-
Sulph.
Ovaritis, in :-
Ust.
Step, has to, with
great care to avoid a jar :-
BELL.
Restless :-
Day and night, in
delirium tremens :-
Stram.
Further than she
ought :-
Ars.
Shuffling :-
Mental, in,
disturbance :-
Staph.
Myelitis acuta,
in :-
Op.
Slipping :-
Nat-c.
Slow :-
Dragging :-
Cham.
Tottering, as after
severe illness :-
Alumn.
Amyg.,
Arg-n., Caps.,
Con., Dig.,
Hyos., Ign.,
Kali-br., Nux-m., Nux-v., Stict.,
Valer.,
Zinc.
Affections, in
brain :-
Gels.,
Kali-br.
Drunk, as if :-
Ter.
Melancholy, in, after
mortification :-
Ign.
Ovaritis, chronic,
in :-
Iod.
Power, loss of, of
coordination on rising from a seat after sitting, takes long
strides, high steps, return after sitting or lying :-
Rhus-t.
Seminal, with,
emissions :-
Kali-br.
Vertigo, with :-
Kali-br.,
Kali-n.
Vertigo, with, in
forehead :-
Olnd.
Walking, when, out of
doors :-
Con.
Weakness, from :-
Con.
Not firm :-
Ambr., Zinc.
Stooping :-
Brain, in, affections
of children :-
SULPH.
Forward, bends :-
Arg-m.,
Sulph.
Crowded up :-
Eup-per.
Stumbling :-
Nat-c.,
Phos.
Chorea, in :-
Lach.
Fall, liability to,
over small objects
(emotional
chorea) :- Ign.
Falls from any little
obstruction on pavement :-
Nat-c.
Toes, catching his, in
every little projection of floor or pavement
(spinal
irritation) :- Phos.
Walk, on trying to
(nystagmus) :-
Agar.
Tottering :-
Ail.,
Bell.,
Bufo, Camph.,
Lach., Syph.
Air, in open, as if
legs could not support body on account of weakness :-
Verb.
Climacteric, during,
period :-
Zinc.
Meningeal tuberculosis,
in :-
Caust.
Sure, as if he were
not, of himself
(multiple
sclerosis) :- Phos.
Thighs, as if, were
weak :-
Ruta.
Vertigo, with :-
Agar.,
Mur-ac.
Trembling gait, in
myelitis :-
Op.
Uncertain gait :-
Does not arrive at
point he sets out for
(chorea) :-
Agar.
Feel as if legs were
going out from under him and that he will fall backward from
slightest gust of wind
(mental
disturbance) :- Staph.
Frequent false
steps :-
Kali-br.
Joints weak
(during
pregnancy) :- Murx.
Legs do not go
right :-
Med.
Looks to see if really
moving
(locomotor
ataxia) :- Kali-br.
Melancholy, in :-
Aur.
Perception, false,
missing steps going downstairs :-
Stram.
Rheumatism, in :-
Colch.
Sidewalk, legs feel as
if all over :-
Kali-br.
Walking, when,
particularly going downstairs, with trembling of leg and pain in
right hip and leg
(parenchymatous
metritis) :- Lac-c.
Cupr-ar., Glon.,
Hydr-ac., Lycps.,
Nat-c.,
Phos., Tarax.
Chorea, in :-
Cimic.,
Mygal.
Extreme, he can stand a
short time, knees shaking, constantly falls over feet if he takes a
few steps and is not able to rise again without assistance
(paralysis
agitans) :- Rhus-t.
Falling, easy, of
little children
(dentition,
chorea, rheumatism, verrucæ, meningeal tuberculosis, pertussis) :-
Caust.
Feeling :-
Lycps.
Knees, from, downward,
must tread carefully, especially when eyes are closed on walking
(tabes
dorsalis) :- Phys.
Legs, seemed as if
drunk
(concussion
of spine) :- Hyper.
Legs, very peculiar
motion of, they are bent and unsteady and are moved forward as if it
were an effort for him to support spinal column :-
Phos.
Locomotor ataxia,
with :-
Kali-br.
Mental labor, after,
especially when he thinks himself unobserved :-
Arg-n.
Paralysis, with
tendency to
(apoplexy) :-
Plb.
Staggers as if
drunk :-
Gels.
Straight, cannot walk,
must be led :-
Stram.
Tabes dorsalis,
in :-
Sulph.
Vertigo, with :-
Sec.
Vacillating :-
Bapt.
Cerebral, in
threatened, softening :-
Nux-v.
Chorea, in
emotional :-
Ign.
Wavering :-
Melancholy, in :-
Aur.
Weakness, from, of
thighs :-
Mur-ac.
Weakness
(See
Legs Weakness.) :-
Coca.
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