Movement Disorder

Movement Disorder

Movement disorders include:

• Akathisia (inability to sit still)
• Akinesia (lack of movement)
• Associated Movements (Mirror Movements or Homolateral Synkinesis)
• Athetosis (contorted torsion or twisting)
• Ataxia (gross lack of coordination of muscle movements)
• Ballismus (violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements)
  • Hemiballismus (affecting only one side of the body)
• Bradykinesia (slow movement)
• Cerebral palsy
• Chorea (rapid, involuntary movement)
  • Sydenham's chorea
  • Rheumatic chorea
  • Huntington's disease
• Dystonia (sustained torsion)
  • Dystonia muscularum
  • Blepharospasm
  • Writer's cramp
  • Spasmodic torticollis (twisting of head and neck)
  • Dopamine-responsive dystonia (hereditary progressive dystonia with diurnal fluctuation or Segawa's disease)
• Geniospasm (episodic involuntary up and down movements of the chin and lower lip)
• Myoclonus (brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles)
• Metabolic General Unwellness Movement Syndrome (MGUMS)
• Mirror movement disorder (involuntary movements on one side of the body mirroring voluntary movements of the other side)
• Parkinson's disease
• Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia
• Restless Legs Syndrome RLS (WittMaack-Ekboms disease)
• Spasms (contractions)
• Stereotypic movement disorder
• Stereotypy (repetition)
• Tardive dyskinesia
• Tic disorders (involuntary, compulsive, repetitive, stereotyped)
  • Tourette's syndrome
• Tremor (oscillations)
  • Rest tremor (4-8 Hz)
  • Postural tremor
  • Kinetic tremor
  • Essential tremor (6-8 Hz variable amplitude)
  • Cerebellar tremor (6-8 Hz variable amplitude)
  • Parkinsonian tremors (4-8 Hz variable amplitude)
  • Physiological tremor (10-12 Hz low amplitude)
• Wilson's disease