Movement Disorders
Parkinson's Disease | Essential
Tremor | Dystonia
Movement disorders are neurological conditions that affect the speed,
fluency, quality, and ease of movement. Abnormal fluency or speed of
movement (dyskinesia) may involve excessive or involuntary movement (hyperkinesia)
or slowed or absent voluntary movement (hypokinesia).
Movement disorders include the following conditions:
- Ataxia (lack of
coordination, often producing jerky movements)
- Dystonia (causes involuntary
movement and prolonged muscle contraction)
- Huntington's
disease (also
called chronic progressive chorea)
- Multiple system atrophies (e.g.,
Shy-Drager syndrome)
- Myoclonus (rapid, brief, irregular movement)
- Parkinson's disease
- Progressive supranuclear palsy (rare disorder
that affects purposeful movement)
- Restless
legs syndrome (RLS) and
reflex sympathetic dystrophy/periodic limb movement disorder (RSD/PLMD)
- Tics (involuntary muscle contractions)
- Tourette's syndrome
- Tremor (e.g., essential
tremor, resting tremor)
- Wilson disease (inherited
disorder that causes neurological and psychiatric symptoms and liver
disease)
However we only treat patients with Parkinson's,
Essential Tremor and Dystonia.
