Other names: walking with straddling legs

Wide base for walking means that one makes smaller steps and its starting position is with legs apart. Such a patient is actually rather shuffles (inches limbs) still maintains a certain distance between the legs. It’s a sign of instability, gait and posture and the patient can walk this assists to keep the balance that would be lost during normal walking. Walking is still uncertain, staggering.

Walking on a broad basis is one of the symptoms of impaired brain called the cerebellum. Among other manifestations include just the tendency to fall on any side problems when changing body position (erections, sitting …), slow start-up and late stop movement, overshooting movement(miscalculation of distance), incoordination, for example, the rapid alternating movements, general clumsiness, inaccuracy movements, muscle weakness and more.

The cerebellum is the center of balance, posture and tuning movements that are so awkward in his faults, gross and clumsy. Treatment is governed by causing damage to the cerebellum. They may be vascular disorders, tumors, and also some sclerosis and viral encephalitis. Treatment always fall into the hands of neurologists.