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
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