Chorea: What It Is, Causes, Treatment & Risk Factors - Cleveland Clinic
网页Chorea is a symptom that causes involuntary, irregular or unpredictable muscle movements. It affects your arms, legs and facial muscles. Chorea comes from the Greek word that means “to dance.” It can make you look like you’re dancing, restless or fidgety. Chorea itself isn’t life-threatening.
Overview of chorea - UpToDate
网页2024年3月28日 · Chorea is a hyperkinetic movement disorder characterized by rapid and unpredictable contractions affecting mostly distal limbs, but also the face and trunk.
Chorea: The Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments - WebMD
网页2023年10月24日 · Chorea is a movement disorder that stems from something wrong with the basal ganglia nerve structure deep in your brain. It causes involuntary movements of the hands, feet, and face. These...
Chorea - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
网页2023年7月10日 · According to the Committee on Classification of the World Federation of Neurology, chorea is defined as "a state of excessive, spontaneous movements, irregularly timed, non-repetitive, randomly distributed and abrupt in character.
Chorea - Wikipedia
网页Chorea (or choreia, occasionally) is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder, characterized by quick movements of the hands or feet. It is one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias. The term chorea is derived from the Ancient Greek: χορεία ("dance"; see choreia), as the movements of the body is comparable to dancing.
Chorea: Signs, Causes, and Treatment - Healthline
网页2024年2月14日 · Chorea is a movement disorder that causes involuntary, unpredictable body movements. Chorea symptoms can range from minor movements, such as fidgeting, to severe uncontrolled arm and leg...
Chorea: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and More - Verywell Health
网页2024年4月25日 · Chorea is a type of involuntary movement characterized by brief, random, recurrent writhing or twisting of any part of the body that gives the impression of restlessness to the observer. It can occur due to certain neurological conditions, systemic illnesses that affect the brain, or a side effect of medication.
Chorea, Athetosis, and Hemiballismus - Chorea, Athetosis, and ...
网页Chorea is random, flowing, nonsuppressible involuntary movements, mostly of the distal muscles and face; movements may be incorporated into semipurposeful acts that mask the involuntary movements.
Chorea & Huntington's Disease - The Movement Disorder Society
网页Chorea is an abnormal involuntary movement derived from the Greek word “dance”. It is characterized by brief, abrupt, irregular, unpredictable, non-stereotyped movements. In milder cases, chorea may appear purposeful. The patient often appears fidgety and clumsy.
Chorea - Physiopedia
网页Introduction. Chorea is defined as "a state of excessive, spontaneous movements, irregularly timed, non-repetitive, randomly distributed and abrupt in character. These movements may vary in severity from restlessness with mild intermittent exaggeration of gesture and expression, fidgeting movements of the hands, unstable dance-like gait to a ...