Duchenne Syndrome

Duchenne Syndrome (Duchenne), is characterized by cerebellar coordination disorders, primarily expressed in changes in gait: it becomes unsteady, hesitant, indecisive, irregular, and slow; the patient walks with widely spaced feet (like an intoxicated person); the patient cannot stand still without swaying. To the gait disorder, other cerebellar symptoms are often added in various combinations: tremor in the lower extremities, in the trunk, head, and sometimes in the upper extremities, dizziness; these symptoms increase the patient's swaying when walking and may cause falls. The following symptoms are also observed: nystagmus, vomiting, scanning speech, handwriting disorder, more rarely - strabismus, asthenia without true paralysis and without special decrease in strength in each group of muscles examined separately. Such a syndrome is observed in lesions of the vermis of the cerebellum.