What are the symptoms of ataxia? What are the symptoms of ataxia?

Initial symptoms: Walking as if drunk (dizziness). The motor response is less flexible, the fluency of the movement is lost, and it is difficult to lift heavy objects.

Walking up and down stairs with uncoordinated legs, stiff muscles, unable to accurately complete certain movements, such as running, climbing, playing ball, etc. When standing still, the body will shake back and forth, and it is easy to splash when carrying water. It is easy to bump into walls or door frames when walking.

There is a problem with eye movement, and it is not possible to quickly move the target. Poor ability to discern distance.

Medium-term manifestations: Aggravation of limb and muscle incoordination, and obvious movement disorders. Inability to control posture and pace, like a penguin walking; Wobbly, legs slightly spread or scissor step, inability to maintain balance, inability to walk long distances, inability to run, difficulty going up and down stairs, inability to adjust the body flexibly when walking.

Therefore, it is easy to fall. Knotted tongue, unclear speech, difficulty writing, and easy choking when eating or drinking.

Late phenomenon: Speech is extremely unclear, inability to control pitch, even speech, illegible handwriting, difficulty swallowing. Unable to stand or even sit up, need to rely on a wheelchair to walk, or stay in bed, unable to take care of themselves.

If the brain or peripheral nerves are affected, the patient's intelligence is affected.

Basic symptoms: unsteady walking, slurred speech, choking on water.

Ataxia symptoms include abnormal standing and gait, dysmetria, alternating dyskinesia, tremor, dysarthria, hypotonia, and ocular motility disorders.

Ataxia refers to the coordination of movement in the case of normal muscle strength, which is divided into four types: sensory, vestibular and cerebellar, and gait instability is its typical manifestation, and other clinical manifestations may not be completely consistent, as follows:

Cerebellar ataxia: patients often feel unsteady gait, wobbly, and unable to walk in a straight line. In severe cases, they cannot stand or sit. Falling to one side when turning or changing direction, or even falling suddenly.

Sensory ataxia: patients complain of unsteady gait, which occurs with eyes closed. The symptoms are mainly coarse and early withering at night, and in severe cases, patients cannot determine the position of their lower limbs and feet when walking, and cannot make accurate judgments on the soles of their feet touching the ground, so there is a feeling of stepping on cotton, which is a manifestation of deep feeling of involvement.

Vestibular ataxia: manifested by standing, unsteady gait, impaired postural balance, and oblique cavern to the affected side. Some may also experience vertigo (rotation or moving in a straight line in one direction), nausea, and vomiting.

Cerebral ataxia: contralateral limb ataxia occurs when the frontal lobe is damaged, and the abrupt appearance is not as obvious as cerebellar ataxia, and it is less accompanied by nystagmus.

1. Balance stool obstacles: unable to grasp balance when walking, shaky walking, unable to walk in a straight line, wide distance between the two feet, that is, drunken gait;

2. Coordination dysfunction: tremor of the limbs, unable to correctly distinguish the distance. During the examination, the finger and nose test and the Luyu heel-knee-shin test can be performed;

3. Abnormal pronunciation: the muscle coordination function of the articulatory organs is poor, and the rhythm and rhythm are abnormal, which is called poetry-like language, and when speaking, it is like reading and reciting poems with a bad reputation;

4. Tremor: intentional tremor, that is, limb tremor, head and trunk tremor, especially nystagmus, can occur due to poor discernment distance when holding objects.

The main symptoms of ataxia are as follows:

1. Balance disorder: the main manifestations are that the patient is unable to grasp balance during walking, walks swayingly, cannot walk in a straight line, has a wide distance between the feet, and walks like a drunken gait;

2. Coordination dysfunction: limbs will tremble, and the distance cannot be correctly distinguished. On examination, the patient will have a positive finger and nose test, as well as a positive heel-knee-shin test;

3. Abnormal pronunciation: the muscles of the articulatory organs have changes in coordination, that is, the coordination is abnormal. The patient's rhythm and rhythm may be abnormal, appearing as a poetic language, and the patient may speak as if reciting poetry;

4. Intention tremor: When the patient is holding something, he cannot distinguish the distance, which will cause tremor. This tremor becomes more severe the closer you get to the target.

Ataxia also presents with a positive Achilles tendon-tibia test, damage to the cerebellum, and swaying of the body when lifting the leg and touching the knee. Ataxia also presents with imbalances in the speed, amplitude, and strength of voluntary movements, as well as impaired coordination. At the same time, it is accompanied by hypotonia, speech disorders, eye movement disorders, and some nystagmus, sensory ataxia, and the inability to distinguish the position and direction of movement of the limbs.

1. Cerebellar ataxia, characterized by unstable standing due to balance disorders in the trunk. 2. Vestibular ataxia, caused by damage to the vestibular system, is mainly caused by balance disorders. 3. Hereditary ataxia, with ataxia and poor distance as the main clinical manifestations.

Because ataxia is very harmful, everyone should pay attention to it and take some measures to deal with it in order to prevent themselves from suffering from it. Only with a healthy body can we work better for our career.