Mnemonic for features of parkinson
Features of parkinsonism = PARKINSONS
P = Pin rolling tremor
A = Akinesia / bradykinesia
R = Rigidity (cog wheel rigidity)
K = Kyphosis
I = Instability
N = Neck titubation
S = Shuffling gait / Stooping like posture
O = Oculogyric crisis
N = Nose tap ( glabellar tap)
S = Small writing (micrographia)
Other way to remember…
Clinical features of parkinsonism = 3SO TIME
S = Slowness and poverty of spontaneous movement
S = Shuffling gait (festination late) which lack of arm swinging
S = Slurred, monotonous speech
O = Oculogyric crisis (forced upward deviation of eye) in drug induced and post encephalitis types
T = Tremor (pin rolling) with cogwheel rigidity
I = Increased salivation and dribbling
M = Micrographia (hand writing become small)
E = Expressionless face, unblinking eye
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