Post-stroke movement syndromes
Post-stroke movement syndromes
Post-stroke movement syndromes
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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