Involuntary movement disorder terms

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Tremors	Involuntary and rhythmic movements
Tics	Sudden, brief, coordinated movements with jerks and usually noise or sounds. In pt's w/ Tourette
Chorea	Irregular contractions that are rapid. In pt's w/ Huntington's disease
Dystonia	Sustained contractions that cause twisting, abnormal postures, and repetitive movements.
Atheosis	Slow twisting and writing movements. Can than become either chorea or dystonia.
Akinesia	Inability to initiate movement
Asthenia	General muscle weakness due to cerebellar disorder
Ataxia	Inability to perform coordination of movements
Bradykinesia	Slow movements
Clonus	Strong spastic alternating movement due to an upper motor neuron lesion.
Cogwheel rigidity	Resistance to a point than free movement than resistance....
Dysdiachokinesia	Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
Kinesthesia	Awareness of body parts and joints in space
Lead pipe rigidity	constant resistance throughout the whole ROM
Dysmetria	Inability to control ROM and force of it
Agnosia	inability to interpret info
Agraphesthesia	inability to recognize letters, numbers, or symbols through touch
Astereognosis	Inability to recognize objects by touch
Decerebrate rigidity	Corticospinal lesion which results in extension in the whole body
Decorticate rigidity	Corticospinal lesion which results in extension everywhere besides the UE's
Diplopia	double vision
Dysarthria	slurred/impaired speech from motor deficit
Hemiparesis	condition of weakness on 1 side of the body
Hemiplegia	Paralysis on 1 side of the body
Homonymous hemianopsia	Blindness on 1 side of both eyes
Ideational apraxia	Inability to formulate or initiate motor planning
Ideomotor apraxia	Able to plan out a motor task but is unable to perform it
Nystagmus	Abnormal eye movement typically rhyhmic and is faster on 1 side than the other
Perseveration	State of repeating a task over and over
Vertigo	Feeling of the room is spinning

Tremors

Involuntary and rhythmic movements

Tics

Sudden, brief, coordinated movements with jerks and usually noise or sounds. In pt's w/ Tourette

Chorea

Irregular contractions that are rapid. In pt's w/ Huntington's disease

Dystonia

Sustained contractions that cause twisting, abnormal postures, and repetitive movements.

Atheosis

Slow twisting and writing movements. Can than become either chorea or dystonia.

Akinesia

Inability to initiate movement

Asthenia

General muscle weakness due to cerebellar disorder

Ataxia

Inability to perform coordination of movements

Bradykinesia

Slow movements

Clonus

Strong spastic alternating movement due to an upper motor neuron lesion.

Cogwheel rigidity

Resistance to a point than free movement than resistance....

Dysdiachokinesia

Inability to perform rapid alternating movements

Kinesthesia

Awareness of body parts and joints in space

Lead pipe rigidity

constant resistance throughout the whole ROM

Dysmetria

Inability to control ROM and force of it

Agnosia

inability to interpret info

Agraphesthesia

inability to recognize letters, numbers, or symbols through touch

Astereognosis

Inability to recognize objects by touch

Decerebrate rigidity

Corticospinal lesion which results in extension in the whole body

Decorticate rigidity

Corticospinal lesion which results in extension everywhere besides the UE's

Diplopia

double vision

Dysarthria

slurred/impaired speech from motor deficit

Hemiparesis

condition of weakness on 1 side of the body

Hemiplegia

Paralysis on 1 side of the body

Homonymous hemianopsia

Blindness on 1 side of both eyes

Ideational apraxia

Inability to formulate or initiate motor planning

Ideomotor apraxia

Able to plan out a motor task but is unable to perform it

Nystagmus

Abnormal eye movement typically rhyhmic and is faster on 1 side than the other

Perseveration

State of repeating a task over and over

Vertigo

Feeling of the room is spinning

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