Have you met with obsessive, excessive phenomena of movement occurring against your own will? Or did you notice muscle twitching from relatives and friends?
According to statistics, excessive movements related to the group of hyperkinesis concern a wide range of people. In the people, such an ailment has long been called a nervous tick. And if you delve into historical data, you can find out that many great people of different eras, such as Mozart, Gogol, Saltykov-Shchedrin and other personalities, also had obsessive movements that were not related to human will.
The word teak is of French origin and denotes a person’s state when muscles quickly twitch throughout the body. Most often, motor muscles contract, but cases of involuntary nods of the head, winking, swallowing, or pulling clothes are not uncommon.
Today, involuntary movements are most common when facial muscles twitch . This manifestation is expressed by a series of successive twitches: a sick person can raise and lower his eyebrows several times, blink or twitch his nose, snap his tongue, and some make circular head movements, as if they were interfered by a tight collar.
Almost all people with nervous tics feel discomfort and awkward in front of others. And the more they experience nervous tension inside themselves, the stronger the defect of the nervous tick. Moreover, from anger, fright and other experiences that cause pain, involuntary movements are strengthened, muscles in the left leg and other parts of the body are activated and twitch.
The causes of situations when muscles twitch throughout the body can be very diverse.
Firstly, transferred viral infections that affected and caused complications to the central and peripheral nervous system.
Secondly, craniocerebral injuries, intracranial pressure, insufficient blood circulation in the brain.
Thirdly, the high mental and emotional stress in work, which makes a person constantly be in a state of excitement and depression.
Fourth, hereditary factor. It affects twitching of the muscles of the shoulder, neck, head and face.
Surrounding people should help a sick person with empathy, sympathy, understanding of his condition. Moreover, painful tic of the face can be reduced to zero if you persistently and persistently fight trigeminal neuralgia. A noticeable positive result is the administration of sedative sedative and anticonvulsants.
The muscles throughout the body also calm down and do not twitch during active physical activity. Useful nerve impulses during such work are extinguished by less powerful ones that cause discomfort and pain.
Too intense involuntary movements can be removed by intramuscular Botox injections. This medicine relaxes muscles and blocks the transmission of nerve impulses.
But you can not stop only on the medical effects. First of all, it is necessary to take up immunity, get to know and master the relaxation technique for the muscles of the body. Long walks, physiotherapy exercises, swimming, auto-training will serve as an excellent way out.
If muscles all over the body twitch due to fatigue, overstrain, honey compresses, organization of proper nutrition, work and rest regimen, light physical exercises in the form of charging will help well. You need to include foods containing more magnesium in your diet. This is black currant, cherry, blueberry, watermelon, nuts, beets, sea fish. Conversely, remove coffee, strong tea and soda from the menu.