Effect of Long-Term Climbing Training on Cerebellar Ataxia: A Case Series

Table 1

Patient characteristics; CT: computed tomography; FAC: functional ambulatory category [13].

Patient	Age	Diagnosis	Lesion (CT)	Duration of illness	Mobility FAC 0–5	Other symptoms
1	29	Craniocerebral injury	Diffuse axonal injury with bilateral frontal, occipital, and hippocampic hemorrhagic lesions with hydrocephalus	2 years	4	—
2	56	Ischemic lacunar stroke, sequelae of left vertebral aneurysm with ventriculocardiac derivation	Sequelae of clipping, no acute lesion	2 months (stroke) 25 years (aneurysm)	1	Right sensitive-motor hemisyndrome
3	22	Perinatal anoxic encephalopathy	Intraventricular haemorrhage	22 years	4	Psychomotor retardation, oculomotor signs
4	42	Metabolic encephalopathy with epilepsy after stereotactic biopsy of a frontal lobe tumor (3.5 years before study onset) and subsequent chemotherapy	Left frontal expansive lesion of corpus callosum with extension to the left temporal lobe	8 months	5	Hypokinetic movement bilateral