Movement disorder

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List of Movement disorders
  • Akinesia (lack of movement)
  • Athetosis (contorted torsion or twisting)
  • Ataxia
  • Ballismus (violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements)
  • Hemiballismus (affecting only one side of the body)
  • Bradykinesia (slow movement)
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • 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)
  • Myoclonus (brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles)
  • Parkinson's disease
  • 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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