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“Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing
Objective To postulate a new possible cause of a unilaterally reduced arm swing in addition to the known medical conditions such as shoulder pathology, Erb’s palsy, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease. Methods Analysis of YouTube videos depicting the gait of highly ranked Russian officials. Results We f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678175/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26666758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6141 |
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author | Araújo, Rui Ferreira, Joaquim J Antonini, Angelo Bloem, Bastiaan R |
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description | Objective To postulate a new possible cause of a unilaterally reduced arm swing in addition to the known medical conditions such as shoulder pathology, Erb’s palsy, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease. Methods Analysis of YouTube videos depicting the gait of highly ranked Russian officials. Results We found a similar walking pattern in President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and three other highly ranked Russian officials, all presenting with a consistently reduced right arm swing in the absence of other overt neurological abnormalities. Conclusions We propose that this new gait pattern, which we term “gunslinger’s gait,” may result from a behavioural adaptation, possibly triggered by KGB or other forms of weapons training where trainees are taught to keep their right hand close to the chest while walking, allowing them to quickly draw a gun when faced with a foe. This should be included in the differential diagnosis of a unilaterally reduced arm swing. |
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spelling | pubmed-46781752015-12-18 “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing Araújo, Rui Ferreira, Joaquim J Antonini, Angelo Bloem, Bastiaan R BMJ Research Objective To postulate a new possible cause of a unilaterally reduced arm swing in addition to the known medical conditions such as shoulder pathology, Erb’s palsy, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease. Methods Analysis of YouTube videos depicting the gait of highly ranked Russian officials. Results We found a similar walking pattern in President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and three other highly ranked Russian officials, all presenting with a consistently reduced right arm swing in the absence of other overt neurological abnormalities. Conclusions We propose that this new gait pattern, which we term “gunslinger’s gait,” may result from a behavioural adaptation, possibly triggered by KGB or other forms of weapons training where trainees are taught to keep their right hand close to the chest while walking, allowing them to quickly draw a gun when faced with a foe. This should be included in the differential diagnosis of a unilaterally reduced arm swing. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2015-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4678175/ /pubmed/26666758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6141 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Araújo, Rui Ferreira, Joaquim J Antonini, Angelo Bloem, Bastiaan R “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing |
title | “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing |
title_full | “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing |
title_fullStr | “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing |
title_full_unstemmed | “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing |
title_short | “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing |
title_sort | “gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678175/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26666758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6141 |
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