...Athetosis is a continuous stream of slow, sinuous, writhing movements, typically of the hands and feet. Movements typical to athetosis are sometimes called athetoid movements. It is said to be caused by damage to the corpus striatum of the brain, and can also be caused by a lesion of the motor thalamus. Read full entry
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- Athetosis. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Athetoid) ... Movements typical to athetosis are sometimes called athetoid movements. ...
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Athetoid Cerbral Palsy (like other forms of CP) is associated with a loss of motor control in some respect, though each type is characterised by different deficits. The muscles in your body are regulated by parts of the brain so that you maintain some kind of stability in response to your position, shifts in weight, movement etc. Even just standing still and upright, some of your muscles need to be contracted to a fairly specific degree, whilst some need to be relaxed. Athetoid CP patients have damage to the parts of their brain that regulates this (most notably, the basal ganglia), so they have trouble maintaining stability and co-ordination across various muscles. Speech requires a fairly complex interaction of muscles in itself (e.g. your jaw, tongue, breathing, muscles in the larynx etc. need to do specific things at specific times), so if they aren't all co-ordinated properly, it can quite easily be disrupted. Like a tug-of-war team who are all pulling in different directions. |
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Athetosis is a continuous stream of slow, sinuous, writhing movements, typically of the hands and feet. Movements typical to athetosis are sometimes called athetoid movements. It is said to be caused by damage to the corpus striatum of the brain. Athetosis is to be distinguished from pseudoathetosis, which is abnormal writhing movement, usually of the fingers, occurring when the eyes are closed, caused by a failure of joint position sense (proprioception), for example in peripheral neuropathy. This is also a common symptom of Huntington's Disease in the latter stages. |
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