Movement disorder

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List of Movement disorders

• 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)
• 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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