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Imagine if you couldn't walk normally or get up from a chair, or if parts of your body moved when you didn't want them to. If you have a movement disorder, you experience these kinds of impaired movement. Dyskinesia is a common symptom of many movement disorders. Dyskinesia results in broken or jerky motions. Tremors are a type of dyskinesia.
Nerve diseases cause many movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Other causes include injuries, autoimmune diseases, infections and certain medicines. Many movement disorders are inherited, which means they run in families.
Treatment varies by disorder. Medicine can cure some disorders. Others get better when an underlying disease is treated. Often, however, there is no cure. In that case, the goal of treatment is to improve symptoms and relieve pain.
Chris Bregler's home page - Research and recent papers on video-based capture of human movements. The main applications are feature animation, video games, and analyzing Movement Disorder
We Move - Tourette Syndrome - Walk through fact sheet on Tourette Syndrome by We Move Org. - a not-for-profit resource for neurologic movement disorders awareness, information, and education.
Kids Move - Provides an overview and describes diagnostic methods and treatments for each child movement disorder, including ataxia, bradykinesia, choreoathetosis, dystonia, myoclonus, spasticity, tics, and tremor.
Medtronic.com - Surgical treatment of Parkinson's, tremors and other movement disorders.
Re-Wired for Life - An independent volunteer not-for-profit organization. Provides on-line support and information for those who have had or who are considering Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery to alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease and certain other movement disorders.
The Parkinson's Institute - An independent not-for-profit institution dedicated to seeking the cause and finding a cure for Parkinson's disease, while providing the best possible care for people with this disease and other movement disorders.
Worldwide Education and Awareness for Movement Disorders - Resource for movement disorder information, including Parkinson's Disease, and disorder activities on the internet.
We Move - Worldwide Education and Awareness for Movement Disorders - Non-profit organization providing education and awareness for movement disorders. Includes treatment information for patients and medical professionals.
The Canadian Movement Disorder Group - Informational source for patients with disorders of movement and their care-givers.
Neurology Channel - Movement Disorders - Introduction to movement disorders plus an ask-a-doctor forum.