Many children who have spasticity or athetosis also have problems with balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference

Stiffness, with the knees bent or with legs separated, occurs more commonly in the child with spasticity and athetosis combined (see below).    From Wordnik.com.  [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference

Most children with athetosis have normal intelligence, but if the muscles needed for speech are affected, it may be hard for them to communicate their thoughts and needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference

These include tongue protrusion; lip smacking; chewing movements; blinking; athetosis of the fingers and toes; shoulder shrugging; and myoclonic movements of the head, neck, and extremities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

The differential diagnosis of athetosis is generally easily made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

` ` Some degree of mental deficiency seems usually to accompany athetosis, even when uncomplicated by any other degenerating neurosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The silly, dancing, posturing, wiry movements, and the facial distortion observed in Huntington's chorea would hardly be mistaken by a careful observer for athetosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

According to Drewry 17.16 ` ` athetosis is a cerebral affection, presenting a combination of symptoms characterized chiefly by a more or less constant mobility of the extremities and an inability to retain them in any fixed position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

"Some degree of mental deficiency seems usually to accompany athetosis, even when uncomplicated by any other degenerating neurosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

According to Drewry "athetosis is a cerebral affection, presenting a combination of symptoms characterized chiefly by a more or less constant mobility of the extremities and an inability to retain them in any fixed position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

This child has severe athetosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference