Ataxia

Ataxia is not a disease. Ataxia is a symptom. A symptom of clumsiness in movements, symptom of loss of coordination of body parts and mal-functioning of motor nerves and ‘Ataxia’ means ‘lack of order’

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Ataxia mainly affects limbs’ movements and slowly it captures whole body and victim becomes totally dependent. The other problems associated with the progress of ataxia are slurred speech,involuntary eye movements, vision problem, swallowing problems, cardiomyopathy diabetes, etc . The ataxia symptoms may be caused by different medical or neurological conditions.

Broadly ataxia has no known treatment. Now a days many researches are going on and treatment for some types of ataxia have been found out. Therefore it is necessary for an ataxia sufferer to know cause and type of ataxia for getting proper medical advice . Read the rest of this entry