Whois & Analysis for movementdisorders.org

The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) is a professional society of clinicians, scientists, and other healthcare professionals who are interested in Parkinson's disease, related neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, hyperkinetic Movement Disorders and abnormalities in muscle tone and motor control.

The field of Movement Disorders includes the following areas: Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism, ataxia, dystonia, chorea and Huntington's disease, tics and Tourette syndrome, myoclonus and startle, restless leg syndrome, stiff person syndrome, tremor and essential tremor, and gait disorders.

The Doctor of Medicine (meaning "teacher of medicine," abbreviated M.D) is a terminal medical degree for practitioners of medicine.

The meaning of the degree varies between different countries.

In countries that follow the United States system, the M.D.

denotes a first professional graduate degree awarded upon initial graduation from medical school.

In countries that follow the tradition of the United Kingdom, the M.D.

denotes a research doctorate, higher doctorate, honorary doctorate or advanced clinical coursework degree restricted to medical graduates.

In those countries, the title of the equivalent first professional degree is Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.

Movement disorders can be defined as neurologic syndromes in which either an excess of movement or a paucity of voluntary and automatic movements, unrelated to weakness or spasticity.

The term movement disorders is used synonymously with basal ganglia or extrapyramidal diseases.

Conventionally movement disorders are divided into two major categories: 1.

Hyperkinetic movement disorders also called dyskinesias refers to excessive, often repetitive, involuntary movements that intrude into the normal flow of motor activity.

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Hypokinetic movement disorders refers to akinesia (lack of movement), hypokinesia (reduced amplitude of movements), bradykinesia (slow movement) and rigidity.

In primary movement disorders the abnormal movement is the primary manifestation of the disorder.

In secondary movement disorders it is an manifestation of other systemic or neurological disorder.

A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a healthcare facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients.

Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded.

They typically cover the primary healthcare needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer specialised treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays.

A health professional, health practitioner or healthcare provider (sometimes simply "provider") is an individual who provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to people, families or communities.