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Chorea and hemiballismus are both forms of involuntary movement disorders. Hemiballismus can cause sudden, violent, and flinging motions. Chorea can cause irregular, spontaneous, and nonrepetitive ...

Athetosis and chorea are two types of involuntary movements that can occur in children and adults with neurological conditions, such as cerebral palsy. The movements have different features, and the ...

Cerebral palsy affects around one in 345 children in the U.S., and more than half of them experience a problem called dystonia - involuntary and often painful muscle contractions, most commonly in the ...

Qinglan “Priscilla” Ding, associate professor in the School of Nursing, with collaborators Laura Murray-Kolb, professor and head of the Department of Nutrition Science, and Zachary Hass, associate ...

Picture this: you’re lying in bed, just about to fall asleep after a long day of working, running and going about your daily business, when your leg starts to cramp. The contractions, the twisting, ...