Movement disorders
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Neurological Rehabilitation and Movement Disorders | myVMC
Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxin used to treat movement disorders and symptoms caused by neurological conditions.
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Other Movement Disorders | Parkinson's Australia
There are a number of other movement disorders that are similar to Parkinson’s but have some unique features that distinguish them from Parkinson’s, these are sometimes referred to as Parkinson's-plus syndromes.
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Neurological physiotherapy - Synapse
Neurological physiotherapy treats movement disorders caused by injury to the nervous or neuromuscular systems. Brain injury can be a cause of this.
Read more on Synapse - Australia's Brain Injury Organisation website
Dystonia - Brain Foundation
Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder that causes muscles in the body to contract or spasm involuntarily. The involuntary muscle contractions cause twisting, repetitive and patterned movements as well as abnormal postures.
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Blepharospasm - Brain Foundation
Blepharospasm (Benign Essential Blepharospasm) Description Benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions and spasms of the eyelid muscles
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Seeing an orthoptist: parents & kids guide | Raising Children Network
An orthoptist can help if your child seems to have an eye movement disorder, a turned eye or vision problems. Find out about orthoptists and children.
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Moblility and Parkinson's | Parkinson's Australia
Parkinson’s was originally classified as a movement disorder as all aspects of movement and mobility may be affected.
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Tourette Syndrome - Brain Foundation
Tourette Syndrome Description Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neuro developmental disorder characterized by repeated involuntary movements (motor tics) and uncontrollable sounds (vocal or phonic tics)
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Cerebral Palsy - Brain Foundation
Cerebral Palsy Read more at Virtual Medical Centre Description Cerebral palsy is the name given to a large group of motor (body movement) disorders that begin early in life and result from brain injuries that are non-progressive (do not worsen over time)
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Cervical dystonia (spasmodic torticollis) | HealthEngine Blog
Cervical dystonia or neck dystonia is a movement disorder of the neck muscles. It causes spasms, tremors and pain in the neck, and abnormal head posture.
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Interventions for eye movement disorders in people with stroke | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: There is insufficient evidence to reach conclusions about the effectiveness of interventions for patients with eye movement disorders after stroke
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Five Evidence-Based Ways to Hone Proprioception
Proprioceptive training can be easily broken into 5 different categories of techniques (Aman et al. 2014). Each category contains a wide variety of treatments — everything from simple balance training to magnetic stimulation. The question must be asked: do any of these actually work?
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Even More Ways to Progress Any Rehabilitation Exercise
The occupation of physiotherapy takes more than a decent set of clinical skills and a good set of hands. It takes intuition. It takes the ability to sort through data and create a clinical picture. It takes the willingness to push past natural barriers and to boldly go where no man has gone before!
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Update on the management of post-traumatic stress disorder | Issue 2 | Volume 38 | Australian Prescriber
Post-traumatic stress disorder occurs in people exposed to life-threatening trauma. GPs may be seeing more patients with post-traumatic stress disorder as...
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Psychological therapies for chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: The evidence for each of the comparisons made in this review was assessed as very low quality
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Use of alprazolam for treatment of essential tremor | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: Currently available data reveal evidence insufficient for assessment of the efficacy and safety of alprazolam treatment for individuals with ET
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Ropinirole for levodopa-induced complications in Parkinson's disease | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: Ropinirole therapy can reduce levodopa dose but at the expense of increased dyskinetic adverse events
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Sydenham's Chorea | Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia
Demonstration of a young boy with chorea
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Different Types of Strokes | Ausmed
Stroke symptoms may be mobility difficulties and hemiplegia, swallowing problems, or being unable to speak and communicate. There are different types of stroke, thus different symptoms. It is important to know exactly what type of stroke your patient has had in order to predict the these symptoms.
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Care and Management of Aphasia | Ausmed
Aphasia is the most common language disorder post-stroke, affecting one-third of all patients diagnosed with stroke. When a patient experiences speech difficulty, word-finding difficulty, or speaks with made-up or inappropriate language, they are likely to be experiencing aphasia.
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