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<strong>Post</strong>-<strong>stroke</strong> <strong>movement</strong> disorders<br />

Movement disorders<br />

definitions<br />

• Dystonia<br />

– a syndrom characterised by prolonged muscle contractions<br />

causing sustained twisting <strong>movement</strong>s and abnormal postures of<br />

affected body parts<br />

• Hemichorea<br />

– unilateral, rapid involuntary motions of flexion and extension,<br />

rotation or crossing, which may involve all body parts, but<br />

predominantly distal parts<br />

• Hemiballismus (hemiballism)<br />

– severe, violent, arrhythmic and large amplitude excurtion of a limb<br />

from proximal joint with an element of rotation

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