Know About Tics To Avoid It

A tic is a sudden, repetitive movement or sound that can be difficult to control.

Tics that involve movements are called motor tics.
Tics that involve sounds are called vocal tics.

Tics can be either simple or complex:

Simple tics/ Transient tics

Simple motor tics are typically sudden, brief, meaningless movements that usually involve only one group of muscles
Shoulder shrugging is one of the most common simple motor tics; others include:

• nose wrinkling
• head twitching
• hand clapping
• neck stretching
• mouth movements
• head, arm or leg jerks
• eye blinking
• lip biting
• facial grimacing
• repetitive or obsessive touching
• kicking
• jumping

Simple motor mostly are sudden, brief, and meaningless movements that usually involve only one group of muscles, coomonly as eye blinking, head jerking and or shoulder shrugging.

Motor tics are mostly of an endless variety and may include such movements as clapping of hands, stretching of neck, mouth movements, head, arm or leg jerks, and facial grimacing is very important feature.

A simple phonic tic can be almost any sound or noise, with common vocal tics being throat clearing, sniffing, or grunting.
Tics can be expalined as semi-voluntary or mostly unvoluntary, because as these are not strictly involuntary-but they may be experienced as a voluntary response to the unwanted, premonitory urge.

A unique aspect of tics, relative to other movement disorders, is that these have suppressible yet irresistible; they are experienced as an irresistible urge that must eventually be expressed.

Some people with tics may not be aware of the premonitory urge. Children may be less aware of the premonitory urge associated with tics than are adults, but their awareness tends to increase with maturity.
Common vocal tics include:
• coughing
• throat clearing
• grunting
• sniffing
• barking
• hissing

Complex tics/ Chronic Tics

Complex motor tics are typically more purposeful-appearing and of a longer nature. They may involve a cluster of movements (involve more than one muscle group) and appear coordinated.
Complex motor tics:

Complex motor tics aren't as rapid as simple motor tics
• pulling at clothes
• touching people
• touching objects
• echopraxia(imitation of the movements of another person)
• copropraxia. (performing obscene or forbidden gestures)
Complex phonic tics:
• echolalia (repeating words just spoken by someone else),
• palilalia (repeating one's own previously spoken words),
• lexilalia (repeating words after reading them)
• coprolalia (the spontaneous utterance of socially objectionable).

Some easy steps to lessen the impact of tics:

• Don't focus on it. Concentrating on it just makes it worse.
• Avoid stress-filled situations as much as you can
• Pointing a person with tic makes the person think about it more.
• Get enough sleep.
• Holding back a tic can just turn it into a ticking bomb, waiting to explode. Let it come out .

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Dr Guptha, Director for the medical coding services and medical coding training

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