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Dr Tabish Saifee
Queen Square Private Healthcare
What is a movement disorder?
A movement disorder is where the ability to make normal movements become adversely affected due to problems in the brain, spinal cord or the neurons in in the limbs says Dr Tabish Saifee, a Consultant Neurologist Queen Square.
Transcript
So a movement disorder is a problem where the ability for us to make normal movements goes wrong. That's often because of problems that arise from the brain's control of movement, but that can also happen because of problems elsewhere, for example in the spinal cord or in the nerves. And either the movements become too slow, hypokinetic, or they become too excessive, what we call hyperkinetic, for example, shaking.
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