John Paul also suffers from a hand tremor, and that symptom, along with a shuffling gait, has prompted repeated speculation that he has Parkinson's disease, a slowly progressive neurological disorder.
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Without sufficient dopamine, patients commonly develop tremors, rigid muscles, difficulty in initiating movement, slowness of movement, a stooped posture, a shuffling gait, loss of balance and sometimes a slurring of speech.
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Parkinsonian features may include shuffling gait, reduced arm-swing during walking, blank expression ( reduced range of facial expression ), stiffness of movements, ratchet-like cogwheeling movements, low speech volume, sialorrhea, and difficulty swallowing.
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The Vatican has never said publicly that the 80-year-old pope suffers from Parkinson's, although John Paul exhibits many of the classic symptoms of the progressive neurological disorder, including tremors and a shuffling gait.
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Others cheered because they wanted to believe in the common man, personified by the club's new manager, Torre, an Italian guy from Marine Park, Brooklyn, with a shuffling gait and a timid smile.
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In Oggi, which came out on newsstands Thursday, Fineschi was quoted as giving this explanation for why the pope walks with a shuffling gait : " He does so for neurological reasons and not orthopedic ."
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At 6 feet 2 inches, Melton has lost about 20 pounds since the summer, but he still weighs more than 200 pounds, and his shuffling gait settles easily into the run-for-five-minutes, walk-for-one pace he has adopted.
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UJ was impossible to forget; he had a big voice, ready smile and huge personality, his white hair stuck out from under a big hat, and his shuffling gait emphasized his size fourteen double narrow loafers.
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Conlon trailed the play with his distinctive shuffling gait, the one that breaks up Miami teammates during the wind sprints that close down each practice session, and arrived late for everything except this taunt from a fan behind the Knicks basket.
