Ataxia is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system, which can cause patients to have motor coordination disorders, mainly refers to the motor coordination disorders of muscles under normal conditions, limb coordination disorders, and the inability to maintain body balance. Degenerative diseases of the central nervous system. There are four main types of ataxia, namely cerebellar ataxia, cerebral ataxia, vestibular labyrinth ataxia, and deep sensory disturbance ataxia. Among them, what we usually refer to as ataxia refers to cerebellar ataxia. Irregularity of the speed, rhythm, amplitude and strength of voluntary movements, that is, coordination disorders, and also accompanied by hypotonia, eye movement disorders and speech disorders.
One is the change of posture and gait, such as standing, staggering gait, etc.
Second, it is a disorder of voluntary movement coordination, the upper limbs are heavier, and the tremor is more obvious when the movement is closer to the target.
Third, speech disorder, slow speech, slurred speech, broken voice, explosive language.
Fourth, it is ocular movement disorder, the eyeball moves back and forth involuntarily, and the ataxia of the ocular motor muscle appears thick ataxia nystagmus.
Fifth, there may be a decrease in muscle tone, and the pendulum-like tendon reflex can be seen in acute cerebellar lesions.
Six, ataxia is observed through the patient’s daily activities, walking unsteady, staggering gait, inflexible movements, wide-spread legs when walking, adult patients can’t walk when walking straight line.
7. Unstable standing, leaning forward or swaying from side to side. When standing on toes or on heels, the swaying is more prominent. Easy to fall is often the main complaint of patients in the early stage. .
8. Difficulty with fine motor skills, such as eating, writing, or buttoning a shirt.
Nine, choking on eating and drinking, and difficulty swallowing.
Clinically, the treatment of ataxia is mainly to take different treatment methods according to the cause of the disease. For ataxia, traditional Chinese medicine is the main treatment, which belongs to the category of atrophy and rheumatism. TCM syndrome differentiation treatment can often receive good therapeutic effects.
Ataxia brings great harm to the physical and mental health of patients, and is a disease that every patient and family does not want to see. Relevant data show that: early detection and early treatment of ataxia is critical to the improvement of ataxia control and recovery.