Movement disorder

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Movement disorder Classification and external resources
ICD-9	333.9
MeSH	D009069

Movement disorders include:

• Akathisia
• 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)
• 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

[edit] Treatment

Treatment depends upon the underlying disorder.^[1]

[edit] References

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