Jerks/ twitches resident survival guide
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Moises Romo, M.D.
Synonyms and Keywords: jerks, twitches, abnormal movements, movement disorders, movement disorders approach
Overview
This section provides a short and straight to the point overview of the disease or symptom. The first sentence of the overview must contain the name of the disease.
Causes
Life Threatening Causes
Life-threatening causes include conditions that may result in death or permanent disability within 24 hours if left untreated.
Common Causes
Diagnosis
Shown below is an algorithm summarizing the diagnosis of Abnormal movements according thee American Academy of Neurology guidelines:[1][2]
Patient with movement disorders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Perform physical examination | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Perform finger or foot tapping | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Increased alternating movements | Progressive fatiguing and decrement of repetitive alternating movements | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hyperkinetic/non-rigid | Rigid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jerky | Non-jerky | Akinetic | Hypokinetic | Bradykinetic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sudden, brief, shock-like involuntary movements | Randomly flowing movements, which are, individually, jerky in nature | ‘Stereotyped’ character of the recurrent movements | 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 | •Parkinsonism •Juvenile parkinsonism • Infectious • Drugs • Toxins • Vascular • Trauma • Metabolic • Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) • Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) • Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) • Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Myoclonus | Chorea | Tics | Tremor | Dystonia | Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Treatment
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Do's
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Don'ts
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References
- ↑ Flemming, Kelly D; Jones, Lyell K (2015). doi:10.1093/med/9780190244927.001.0001. Missing or empty
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(help) - ↑ Abdo, Wilson F.; van de Warrenburg, Bart P. C.; Burn, David J.; Quinn, Niall P.; Bloem, Bastiaan R. (2010). "The clinical approach to movement disorders". Nature Reviews Neurology. 6 (1): 29–37. doi:10.1038/nrneurol.2009.196. ISSN 1759-4758.