Functional Movement Disorder (2)

Question 1

What is functional movement disorder?

Answer 1

Problem with the functioning of nervous system where habitual movement patterns stick

Question 2

What does functional movement disorder show an interaction between?

Answer 2

Specialties of neurology and psychiatry

Question 3

What does treatment focus on in functional movement disorder?

Answer 3

Retraining movements and redirecting from unhelpful illness beliefs and behaviors

Question 4

What are the clinical signs that suggest functional movement disorder?

Answer 4

Hoovers sign

Hip abductor sign

Entrainment of a tremor

Question 5

What is Hoovers sign?

Answer 5

Patient has difficulty pushing bad leg down, but then they lift up their good leg movement in the bad leg returns to normal

Question 6

What is the hip abductor sign?

Answer 6

Weakness of hip abduction which returns to normal with contralateral hip abduction against resistance

Question 7

What is entrainment of a tremor?

Answer 7

When a tremor becomes better when a patient focuses on copying a movement that the examiner makes

Question 8

What are the components of the optimal theory?

Answer 8

Enhanced expectancy

Autonomy

External focus