Welcome, everyone, to our new podcast on movement disorders. These podcast will be a series of mini lectures, which are 3-7 minute long audio clips discussing a very particular topic or a very particular question with a practical, useful, relevant detail or information. So it could be a discussion on something like how do you examine a patient’s gait? How do you diagnose someone with cerebral palsy? or what is the difference between spasticity and rigidity? What is the difference between freezing of gait and initiation failure of gait or hesitation of gait, so on and so forth. These questions are related to movement disorders, what are movement disorders. They are a group of neurological disorders that lead to abnormalities of movements in a patient involuntary movement so there could be excessive movement, patient is moving too much, getting pulling, tightness, jerking, twitching, shaking, are not able to move very well. So too slow, falling, imbalanced and so on and so forth. This is a component of neurological disorders or a sub specialty or a field within neurological disorders or neurology, which particular deals with these kind of abnormal diseases. So to give you some examples, it will be something […]