Question
A child may experience tics. This is a group of movement disorders that occur during childhood, with an unknown cause and symptoms manifesting as repetitive, rapid, purposeless, and unconscious contractions of individual or multiple muscle groups. The most common areas affected are on the face, such as eyebrows, blinking, corner twitches, shoulders, upper limbs, and lower limbs, as well as involuntary vocalizations or profanity. It can be a simple regional muscle tic or a complex involuntary movement. It is often accompanied by symptoms such as attention deficit, obsessive thoughts and behaviors, and self-harm. Conditions such as chorea, hepatolenticular degeneration, and epilepsy-like myoclonus should be ruled out.
Answer
A child may experience tics. This is a group of movement disorders that occur during childhood, with an unknown cause and symptoms manifesting as repetitive, rapid, purposeless, and unconscious contractions of individual or multiple muscle groups. The most common areas affected are on the face, such as eyebrows, blinking, corner twitches, shoulders, upper limbs, and lower limbs, as well as involuntary vocalizations or profanity. It can be a simple regional muscle tic or a complex involuntary movement. It is often accompanied by symptoms such as attention deficit, obsessive thoughts and behaviors, and self-harm. Conditions such as chorea, hepatolenticular degeneration, and epilepsy-like myoclonus should be ruled out.