Sentences with phrase «involuntary muscle contractions»

Infant dystonia disorder causes involuntary muscle contractions in babies, but it's actually a neurological condition.

One suggested explanation is a neurological condition called focal dystonia that results in involuntary muscle contractions when performing a motor task and tends to affect a muscle group that is used frequently and repeatedly.

Denoting, as in English, a nervous twitch or tremor caused by involuntary muscle contractions, the term may bring to mind a syndrome that disrupts everyday activities; the power of the unconscious, which eludes deliberate control; or any anomaly that calls normality into question.

Once your pet has died, you might observe involuntary muscle contractions or respiratory gasps about one or two minutes after the loss of consciousness and circulation.

Idiopathic head tremors are a series of repetitive, horizontally («no» gesture) or vertically - directed («yes»), involuntary muscle contractions involving the head and neck.

They're brother and sister, and both have dystonia, a movement disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions.

It decreases the rate of the heart and respiration rate, while increasing the flow of blood to digestive organs, reproductive organs and inducing peristalsis (the involuntary muscle contractions that move food along the digestive tract).

The patient will need to be supported with medications to control the involuntary muscle contractions until the ibuprofen is out of the patient's system.

Your dog is having involuntary muscle contractions and may bite unknowingly.

Involuntary muscle contractions caused by the shock can damage muscles, tendons, ligaments, and even bone.