Inability to make gestures and perform certain tasks; Movements - inability to perform certain tasks; Buccofacial apraxia; Orofacial apraxia; Ideational apraxia; Ideomotor apraxia; Limb-kinetic apraxia; Verbal apraxia

Take the proper safety measures if you have:

• Confusion
• Seizures
• Problems with your senses
• Weakness

However, you can still participate in normal activities.

You must have extreme patience with people who have apraxia. Take time to show them how to do the task and allow enough time for them to perform the task. Avoid giving complex directions.

Call your health care provider if you are unable to do simple, routine acts and there is no known reason.

If you are having seizures, you will be stabilized first.

The doctor will perform a physical exam and ask you questions about your medical history and symptoms, including:

• Are you on dialysis for chronic kidney failure?
• What other symptoms do you have? For example, do you have:
  • Confusion or disorientation
  • Memory loss
  • Numbness or tingling of any body part
  • Seizures
  • Weakness or paralysis of any body part

Tests that may be done include:

• Blood tests
• Cranial CT scan
• Lumbar puncture
• MRI of the head
• X-ray

Your doctor may refer to you a physical, speech, or occupational therapist. If the movement problem is a symptom of another medical condition, that condition should also be treated.

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Review Date: 04/23/2008
Reviewed By: Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery and Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

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