Finally, hypokinetic dysarthria can, paradoxically, result in an abnormally fast rate of speech—not unlike the festination of gait that is often a symptom of PD. While it is difficult to ...

A greater tendency to flexed posture, a reduction in arm swing, and festination (propulsion or retropulsion) are more suggestive of parkinsonism than so-called frontal or frontal-subcortical gait ...