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| Jerky movements that is random and rapid | Chorea
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| Postures are distored, repetitive, twisted movements, Involuntary muscle contractions | Dystonia
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| Slowness of movements and speed | Bradykinesia
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| Reflexive abnormal motor movements in response to a tendon stretch | Clonus
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| jerk or clicking muscle motions | Cogwheel rigidity
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| general motor restlessness and the urge for continuous movement | Akathesia
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| Writhing movements | Athetosis
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| both chorea and athetosis are present | Choreoathetosis
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| Ability to move the eyes in a synchronized and precise fashion between two visual points | Saccades
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| Ability to coordinate the eyes and the hands to execute precise movements | Visual motor skills
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| Ability to maintain the correct posture and arm position during handwriting | Proximal Stability
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| (motor planning) Ability of the brain to plan an action and then send signals to the body to carry out the action | Praxis
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| (Kinesthesia) Ability to sense the body's position in relation to itself | Proprioceptive processing
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| Ability to sense the body's position in relation to its surroundings | Vestibular processing
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| Difficulty controlling the muscles used for speech | Dysarthria
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| difficulty swallowing | Dysphagia
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| Double vision -loss of vision - increase fall risk | Diplopia
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| blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes | Hemianopsia
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| Partial displacement/ dislocation | Shoulder subluxation
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| Expressive aphasia -broken speech - patient is aware of deficits | Broca's aphasia
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| Receptive aphasia - Inability to understand spoken words - Patient is unaware of deficits | Wernicke's aphasia
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| - Most severe form - All language impaired (Expressive, Receptive, Reading, and Writing) | Global aphasia
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| Slower than normal heart rate ( less than 60 bpm) | Bradycardia
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| Faster than normal heart rate ( greater than 100 bpm) | Tachycardia
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| Paralysis on one side of the body | Hemiplegia
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| Weakness on one side of the body | Hemiparesis
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| Abnormal motor movement due to impaired central nervous system | Spasticity
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| Surgical procedure used to rebuild or replace a synovial joint | Arthroplasty
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| Endoscopic surgical procedure used to examine | Arthroscopy
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| Language Impairment | Aphasia
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| Misaligned eyes | Strabismus
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| Potentially fatal formation of a blood clot most often in the calf area | Deep vein thrombosis
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| Inability to control the distance, speed, and range of motion needed to perform smoothly coordinated movements | Dysmetria
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| Goes past objects when reaching | Overshoot Dsymetria
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| Miss objects due to not reaching far enough out for it | Undershoot Dsymetria
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| Shortening of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist | De Quervain's Syndrome
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| Back portion of the body | Dorsal
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| Shortness of breath | Dsypnea
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| Relating to the palm of the hand or sole of foot | Volar
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| Motor planning challenges | Dsypraxia
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| Awareness of body scheme and body parts | Sqmatognosia
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| Ability to identify the shape and form of 3 dimensional objects | Stereognosis
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| inability to judge the form of an object by touch | astereognosis
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| Motor dysfunction secondary to a lesion of the basal ganglia where during slow PROM, constant resistance is felt throughout; common symptom of Parkinson's disease | Lead pipe rigidity
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| muscle tension that intermittently halts movement as an examiner attempts to manipulate a limb | cogwheel rigidity
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| difficulty conceptualizing planned, multistep movements | Ideational apraxia
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| inability to correctly imitate hand gestures and voluntarily mime tool use | Ideomotor apraxia
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| sudden loss of muscle tone while someone is awake; seen in narcolepsy | Cataplexy
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| muscle tone disorder resulting in stiff or inflexible muscles | Rigidity
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| lack of coordination with voluntary movements (coordination disorder) | Ataxia
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| muscle jerks and twitches; can be mild/severe, slow/quick, rhythmic/nonrhythmic; appears the same as tics physically | Myoclonus
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| poor insight or denial of one's own disabilities | Anosognosia
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| overgrowth or deposit of bone in soft tissues which may affect movement | Heterotopic ossification
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| body scheme disorder characterized by decreased awareness of body structure and recognition of one's own body parts and their relationship to each other | Somatoagnosia
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| Bone infection | Osteomyelitis
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| Infection entering the bloodstream | Sepsis
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| Lack of oxygen to the brain | Anoxia
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| Can't remember what happened before accident | Retrograde Amnesia
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| Inability to remember new things | Anterograde Amnesia
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| Decreased ability to complete rapid, alternating movements | Dysdiadochokinesis
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| Violet, Involuntary flinging movements on one side of the body | Hemiballismus
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| Sensation of "pins and needles" | Parasthesia
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| Loss of consciousness | Syncope
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| Ability to see 3 dimensional objects and perceive depth | Stereopsis
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| Drooping eyelid | Ptosis
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| ability to recognize familiar objects by touch with vision occluded | Tactile gnosis
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