Ataxia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年1月30日 · Ataxia describes poor muscle control that causes clumsy movements. It can affect walking and balance, hand coordination, speech and swallowing, and eye movements. Ataxia usually results from damage to the part of the brain called the cerebellum or its connections. The cerebellum controls muscle coordination.
Ataxia: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Types - Cleveland Clinic
网页Ataxia is when you have problems coordinating how your muscles work, leading to awkward, unwieldy or clumsy movements. It’s a possible symptom with a wide range of conditions or circumstances, or it can happen as a stand-alone condition. Depending on why it happens, it’s sometimes possible to treat or reverse the effects of ataxia.
Ataxia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment - WebMD
网页2024年4月18日 · Ataxia is when you have poor muscle control that causes clumsy or awkward movements, like having trouble walking or balancing. It can affect your legs, arms, hands, eyes, and speech. Ataxia can...
Ataxia - Johns Hopkins Medicine
网页Ataxia may be short-term (temporary), such as being under the influence of alcohol, medicine, or drugs. Or it can be long-term (permanent) from a stroke or other brain or nerve injury. It can also get worse (be progressive) from a degenerative disorder.
11 Exercises for Ataxia Patients - National Ataxia Foundation
网页2019年10月29日 · People living with Ataxia may experience problems including incoordination of movement, slurred speech, poor balance, and gait abnormalities. Neuromotor exercises and physical therapy focusing on coordination and balance has been shown to improve or halt the progression of functional decline and are the mainstay treatments for Ataxia. The ...
Ataxia - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年1月30日 · When diagnosing ataxia, your healthcare professional looks for a treatable cause. You'll likely have physical and neurological exams. Your healthcare professional checks your vision, balance, coordination and reflexes.
Ataxia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
网页2023年8月23日 · Ataxia is a neurological sign that manifests in a lack of coordination in the movement of different muscles in the body. It is a clinical finding and not a disease, which mainly presents abnormalities in gait, changes in speech such as scanning speech, and abnormal eye movements such as nystagmus.
Movement disorders - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年5月30日 · Ataxia. Ataxia affects the part of the brain that controls coordinated movement. Ataxia may cause clumsy movements of the arms and legs, and a loss of balance. Ataxia also can change a person's speech and cause other symptoms. There are many causes of ataxia, including genetic and degenerative conditions.
Assessment of ataxia - Differential diagnosis of symptoms | BMJ …
网页2024年1月25日 · Ataxia is a neurological syndrome characterised by clumsy and unco-ordinated movement of the limbs, trunk, and cranial muscles. It results from pathology in the cerebellum and its connections, or in the proprioceptive sensory pathways. The list of causes of ataxia is extensive.
Ataxia - PMC - National Center for Biotechnology Information
网页Stance. A healthy person can stand naturally with feet spread less than 12 cm apart and is able to stand stable with feet together or in tandem for more than 30 seconds. An impaired stance in the absence of motor weakness or gross involuntary movements is suggestive of cerebellar ataxia or sensory ataxia. Gait ataxia.