Possible Causes for Limping Gait in USA
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Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
Limping GaitIn fact, most patients with SCFE are teenagers with knee or hip pain who subsequently exhibit an intermittent limping gait.[1]
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Knee Disorder
Limping Gait
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Bacterial Arthritis
Limping Gait
Bacterial arthritis is predominantly caused by Staphylococcus aureus, streptococci, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Joint pain and swelling (involving either one or more joints), as well as fever, are three cardinal symptoms seen in these patients. The diagnosis can be made after a proper physical examination, while the…[2]
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Congenital Hip Dysplasia
Limping Gait
Congenital hip dysplasia describes a medical condition characterized by an abnormal development of the hip joint. Congenital hip dysplasia is frequently asymptomatic. This is why screening procedures are extremely important, especially after birth. Signs and symptoms that may be present include increase in the range…[3]
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Pyogenic Arthritis of the Sacroiliac Joint
Limping Gait
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Hip Disease
Limping Gait
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Charley Horse
Limping Gait
Delayed onset muscle soreness is a state of muscular pain, occurring 24 to 48 hours after intense or prolonged muscular activity. The mechanism of delayed onset muscle soreness is not completely understood.[4]
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Sever Disease
Limping Gait
Sever disease is a common and painful inflammation of the calcaneal apophysis. The following symptoms commonly presents with calcaneal apophysitis or Sever disease: Pain and swelling at the posterior heel Walking on toes Pain is aggravated with use of heel Limping Difficulty in running and jumping Tenderness when the…[5]
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Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Limping Gait
Osteoarthritis of the knee describes a chronic, degenerative disease of the knee joints that is associated with cartilage damage, functional impairment and pain. The disease may be triggered by genetic predisposition, age, trauma or other pathological conditions. Patients usually present with inflamed knees and…[6]
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Knee Sprain
Limping Gait
A knee sprain occurs when the ligament(s) of the knee sustains damage. Sprains result from sports and recreational activities, direct knee contact, or falls. Knee trauma is particularly common in young athletes. The patient history for a knee sprain, especially that of an ACL tear, is positive for a popping…[7]
Further symptoms
- Abnormal Bone Scan
- Abnormal Gait
- Abnormal Hip X-Ray
- Acute Gouty Arthritis
- Anorexia
- Arthralgia
- Atrophy of the Thigh Muscles
- Bacteria
- Bilateral Knee Effusion
- Blood Culture Positive
- Bone Disorder
- Complete Blood Count Abnormal
- Creatine Phosphokinase Increased
- Decreased Range of Hip Movement
- Difficulty Walking
- Elevated Sedimentation Rate
- Fever
- Heel Swelling
- Hemarthrosis
- High Fever
- Hip Arthritis
- Hip Pain
- Hyperpyrexia
- Intermittent Leg Claudication
- Juvenile Onset Stills Disease
- Knee Effusion
- Knee Pain
- Leukocytes Increased
- Leukocytosis
- Limited Hip Abduction
- Low Back Pain
- Lower Extremity Pain
- Malum Coxae Senilis
- Normal Skeletal X-Ray
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteomyelitis
- Patient Appears Acutely Ill
- Pediatric Disorder
- Pelvic Girdle Pain
- Postinfectious Disorder
- Pseudogout
- Psoas Abscess
- Quadriceps Muscle Weakness
- Reiter's Syndrome
- Rheumatic Fever
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Rigor
- Septic Bursitis
- Septicemia
- Spine Pain
- Suppurative Inflammation
- Swollen Knee
- Tachycardia
- Thigh Pain
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Traumatic Arthropathy
- Unable to Bend
- Waddling Gait
- Walking with a Cane
Similar symptoms
- Abnormal Gait
- Ataxia
- Ataxia Telangiectasia
- Ataxic Cerebral Palsy
- Broad-Based Gait
- Cerebellar Ataxia
- Circumduction Gait
- Difficulty Walking
- Friedreich Ataxia
- Gait Apraxia
- Hartnup Disease
- Machado-Joseph Disease
- Nothnagel's Syndrome
- Ocular Dysmetria
- Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy
- Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome
- Rett Syndrome
- Scissoring Gait
- Shuffling Gait
- Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1
- Stiff Gait
- Toe-Walking Gait
- Truncal Ataxia
- Usher Syndrome
- Waddling Gait