Patients with tic disorders have uncontrollable urges to make sudden, rapid and repetitive movements and/or sounds. These movements and vocalizations are expelled as a response to the intolerable urge (also known as premonitory urge) often coming from a muscle group. Premonitory urges are like the urge to sneeze, yawn or scratch an itch. The frequency of tics may be affected by stress and changes in emotions.
Signs and Symptoms
- • squinting or eye-blinking
- • opening the eyes wide, rolling the eyes, other eye gestures
- • teeth grinding and lip chewing
- • rapid jerking of the head to one side
- • touching objects, self, and others
- • flexing the arm or foot, skipping, kicking and hopping
~ Meaningless Motor Tics
- • tensing the abdomen or buttocks
- • copying someone's gestures
- • touching, picking, tapping
~ Purposeful Motor Tics
- • clearing throat or coughing
- • mimicking sounds or repeating phrases they have said, or phrases said by others
- • whistling
- • changes in tone, pitch, and volume of voice
- • sniffling
~ Phonic Tics
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