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Clinical features

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Parkinsonism usually occurs in subjects over 40 years of age.

The symptoms and signs associated with parkinsonism include (1):

  • hypokinesia ( poverty of movement)
  • bradykinesia (slowness of movement)
  • rigidity
  • rest tremor

The clinical features of parkinsonism are often initially unilateral. They may present as :

  • coarse tremor present at rest
  • pill-rolling movements
  • cogwheel rigidity
  • slowness of movement
  • speech is typically monotonous, soft, faint, and lacking intonation
  • expressionless face; dribbling
  • small writing is characteristic - micrographia
  • shuffling parkinsonian gait - festination
  • oculogyric crises - forced upward deviation of the eyes - may occur in post-encephalitic or drug-induced parkinsonism

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