Talk:Sensory ataxia

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I don't agree that sensory ataxia is a stub. The article defines and describes it, how to identify it, how to distinguish it from cerebellar ataxia and gives examples of conditions causing it. It's a pretty rare phenomenon in neurology and there really isn't much more to say about it. If you think there is more to say, please let me know what you think needs adding (here or on my talk page)and I will happily add it. Dubbin 01:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree it is too long for a stub. I added a category. Would you be able to provide a reference that deals somewhat comprehensively with this? JFW | T@lk 16:16, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

To promote something out of the stub category, I usually want to see ten sentences, with some other feature in the article being able to substitute for some of the sentences. This currently has only seven sentences (and a reference). It may be a good stub, but I don't think that it's quite to the level of Start-class.

Offhand, I'd say that it could be expanded with information about:

• how common this is,
• what comorbidities/risk factors could be expected,
• what the prognosis/treatment/outcome is, and
• how this affects the patient in everyday life (Can you drive if you have this? Can you walk? Can you work? Can you safely cook dinner?).

This article could also benefit from a little more plain English: "Patients have coordination problems when they are unable to see because they do not feel things normally" in addition to the current sentences about the "loss of sensory input" and "pendular tendon reflexes." The first paragraph, in particular, might want to assume that the probable reader is not a medical student, but someone whose elderly mother, who is three thousand miles away, has been diagnosed with this.

Hope this helps explain my thinking, WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:10, 1 January 2008 (UTC)