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Rehabilitation in Chorea

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Chorea is a syndrome characterized by involuntary movements that are brief, abrupt, unpredictable and nonrhythmic, resulting from a continuous flow of random muscle contractions. Causes may be categorized by etiology into genetic and acquired, with significant implications for management and prognosis. This chapter provides an overview of rehabilitation in the most common causes of non-Huntington’s chorea. As there are essentially no published data on this subject, the discussion is based on the authors’ experience. The main problems tackled by rehabilitation in these disorders are dysphagia, dysarthria, and postural instability with falls.

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  1. Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Débora Maia M.D., M.Sc. & Francisco Cardoso M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Hsin Fen Chien

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    Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini

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Maia, D., Cardoso, F. (2017). Rehabilitation in Chorea. In: Chien, H., Barsottini, O. (eds) Movement Disorders Rehabilitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46062-8_7

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