Does Walking Change the Rombergs Sign?
Poster Presentation Number: P366 Location: Venetian/Sands EXPO Hall D Spine David Miller, MRCS Jayesh Trivedi, FRCS Stoke-on-Trent United Kingdom David C Jaffray, MD Oswestry, Shropshire United Kingdom Gordon Findlay, FRCS Birender Balain, MRCS Shrewsbury United Kingdom We examined 50 consecutive patients with cervical myelopathy to assess the usefulness of Walking Romberg Test as compared to other known clinically useful tests. Romberg sign helps demonstrate loss of postural control as a result of severely compromised proprioception. There is still no standard approach to applying the Romberg test in clinical neurology and the criteria for and interpretation of an abnormal result continue to be debated.We descibe and evaluate the Walking Romberg test. Detailed clinical examination of 50 consecutive patients of radiologically confirmed cervical myelopathy was done. For the walking Romberg sign, patients were asked to walk five metres with their eyes open. This was repeated with their e
