Tags: Disease.
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 Dyskinesia (abnormal involuntary movement) Tardive dyskinesia 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) Essential tremor 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 diseaseParoxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia Restless Legs Syndrome RLS (WittMaack-Ekboms disease) Spasms (contractions) Stereotypic movement disorder Stereotypy (repetition) 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