Jerks/ twitches resident survival guide

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:

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Overview

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Causes

Life Threatening Causes

Life-threatening causes include conditions that may result in death or permanent disability within 24 hours if left untreated.

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Common Causes

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Diagnosis

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Patient with movement disorders

Perform finger or foot tapping

Increased alternating movements

Progressive fatiguing and decrement of repetitive alternating movements

Hyperkinetic/non-rigid

Rigid

Bradykinetic

Non-jerky

Bradykinetic

Non-jerky

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Sudden, brief, shock-like involuntary movements

Randomly flowing movements, which are, individually, jerky in nature

‘Stereotyped’ character of the recurrent movements

y involuntary, rhythmic and sinusoidal alternating movements of one or more body parts

Involuntary abnormal co-contraction of antagonistic muscles, which may cause sustained abnormal postures or twisting and repetitive movements

Myoclonus

Chorea

Tics

Tremor

Dystonia

Treatment

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Do's

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Don'ts

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