What is apraxia?

Apraxia is an inability to perform accurate movements or action due to a neurological disorder. A person with this condition may want to perform a specific action or to do a gesture and have a physical ability to do so, but their brain prevents them. Apraxia, which is manifested in many different ways, occurs when brain hemispheres of brain disorder in such a way that a person is unable to control specific types of fine engine. Depending on what activities the person has problems, the problem may fall into a number of specific categories. A person may have one or more types at the same time.

Orofacial apraxia, sometimes called buccophocial apraxia, is the most common type. This type limits facial movement and is difficult or impossible to lick lips, whistle or blink. This is the most common type.

Another common type is verbal apraxia. It is hard to speak. Is often diagnosed in childhood if Child develops them especially late or has more than normal difficult to coordinate the movements of the mouthwhen trying to create words.

There are several types of this condition that causes difficulty in performing tasks. The end of the-apertic apraxia makes it difficult to move with their hands and legs. Ideomotor Apraxia is an inability to perform an action in response to a verbal order. Ideation Apraxia is an inability to perform tasks with multiple steps, such as the production of sandwich or shower.

The difficulty of moving through your eyes is called oculomotor apraxia. Patients with structural Apraxia have difficulty or inability to draw figures or structural shapes.

This condition can range in the severity of mild forms, sometimes called dyspraxia, to very serious. Physical therapies, speech therapy and ergotherapy can sometimes cause improvement. Tmíra, in which therapy releases the problem in patients. Sometimes there is a basic neurological disorder that causes apraxia, especially in the elderly. If thatK is, medical treatment of basic disorder can sometimes treat disorder or further therapy treatment is more effective.

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