Imagine a bout where parts of your body are moving when you don’t want them to move.

People suffering from movement disorders often have such experiences. Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia, chorea fall under the category of movement disorders, which develop because of neurological problems.

The neurology department of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) in collaboration with Patna Neurological Society would organise a workshop on movement disorders at hotel Maurya on Friday where doctors from other cities would also participate.

“We thought to organise a programme on movement disorders because at IGIMS’s neurology department, around 10 per cent cases are related to movement disorders. Parkinson’s disease, tremor, chorea are known as movement disorders. Doctors coming to our workshop would discuss about the diseases and treatments available in detail,” said Ashok Kumar, a doctor with the neurology department of IGIMS.

On doctors from outside the state, who would participate in the workshop, he said: “Among the doctors coming from the other cities are Mohit Bhatt from Kokilaben Dhirubai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, (Mumbai), S.K. Das of Burdwan Medical College (Burdwan), Binay Goyel from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Delhi), Rishikesh (The Institute of Neurosciences, Calcutta), Paresh Joshi from Jaslok Hospital (Mumbai) and Bithika Joshi from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.”

Neeraj Kumar, another doctor associated with the neurology department of IGIMS, said: “One of the diseases on which doctors would throw light at the programme is Parkinson’s. The nerve cells in the brain of the patient don’t produce enough chemical called dopamine. Patients suffering from Parkinson’s show symptoms like trembling of hands, arms, legs and jaws. As a result of these, the patient’s movement becomes slower. Such patients have trouble walking, talking or doing simple tasks.”

While in dystonia, the patient loses muscle control. “Foot cramps, turning or dragging of the foot, worsening of handwriting, neck movements, rapid eye blinking are the symptoms of dystonia. While chorea, which mostly occurs among children, starts with sore throat and it ends at tonsillitis and can result in cardiac failure because of damage of valves of the heart. Doctors suggest chorea patients to take penicillin injections after every 21 days. Some continue the injection for their entire life for better results,” he said.