Treatment
Treatment options should be aimed towards the re-establishment of power (consciousness) to affected motor circuits through explanation of the condition, proprioception based physiotherapy and drug treatment. Finding and treating the root organic cause that has "sparked" the deafferentation within the CNS is also important i.e. vitamin b12 deficiency, lyme disease, antiphospholipid syndrome and various other non-structural diseases are all common causes.
The importance of the sub-cortex in movement and its relatively recent evolution could be hypothesised as the structural flaw in the “animal who knows and knows that he knows.” Chardin Studies of functional symptoms in other higher mammals thus offer the possibility of further insight into what is a distressing and often long-term, though completely reversible condition.
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