The atetosis of the athetos Greek translation is no fixed standard, is a type of disorder of movement that is caused by the involvement of the nervous system, in the majority of cases of cerebral palsy, slow moving repetitive and involuntary in some parts of the body such as the face, hands, legs, feet; Sometimes a type of fast and twisted movements called chorea may appear, involving the facial muscles to a great extent and when these two symptoms appear in the same patient it is recognized as choreoathetosis, genetics is also very involved in these cases helping progressive deterioration equating them to Parkinson's disease.
This disease is the result of the basal ganglia, which are found as groups of neurons at the base of the brain and cerebellum and which are promoters of movement function, are affected with cerebral palsy. Athetosis, being an involuntary disease in the hours of sleep, patients continue with the movements causing fatigue due to little rest; one of the risks of using drugs neurological cause atetosis as a side effect, some pregnant women suffer in the first three months of gestation, presenting involuntary movements without knowing the cause apparent why, with a high percentage of that getting out of the pregnancy the symptoms disappear completely.
In 1872, Dr. George Huntington described it as a degenerative, hereditary, dominant, autosomal and neurological disease. When this disease occurs in a person, it is likely that they will pass it on to their children or grandchildren in the future, dementia is one of the characteristics of the disease and can begin at any age due to the influence of family inheritance, due to some affectation of the brain or due to side effects of some medications. The physical and mental deterioration over time leads the patient to not be able to take care of himself and lead him to death. The treatment is not explicit, doctors treat the symptoms more than the disease since the damage itself is already done and the condition is irreversible, many reduce thesymptoms with anti-psychotics to control movements and the patient can have at least rest during sleep.
