What Are The Symptoms Of Sydenham’s Chorea?

Clumsiness

Clumsiness can be an indicator an individual may be affected by Sydenham's chorea. Clumsiness is a term used to describe when an individual experiences poor movement, action, and coordination. Occasional clumsiness occurs in everyone, and this is not the same as the type of clumsiness seen in Sydenham's chorea. These patients have ongoing problems with their coordination that may have started suddenly. Individuals who experience this symptom may stumble frequently and have other difficulties with walking. Clumsiness precipitated from Sydenham's chorea can cause a patient to have difficulty with handwriting and may drop objects they are attempting to hold. A patient with Sydenham chorea may experience clumsiness when they have twitch-like or tremor-like movements in their hands and other digits. The abnormal movements that occur in these parts of the body cause the individual's coordination to become impaired.

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Uncontrolled Speech

An individual who experiences uncontrolled speech may be affected by Sydenham's chorea . In healthy individuals, the formation of speech is complex and involves multiple components in the brain and the oral structures. The mechanisms and movements of the different components must be perfectly orchestrated to produce intelligible speech. In order to speak, an individual needs to maintain the vibration of their vocal folds. This vibration is conformed by the lips, hard palate, soft palate, tongue, and mandible into the purposeful sounds that have to be put together to form words in a language. This ability can be disrupted when there is a complication with the components that have to work seamlessly together to produce it. Disorderly movements of the oral components and vocal cords can produce involuntary sounds. Motor persistence and weakness in the muscles that move the mouth can cause an individual to make sounds different from the sounds they mean to produce. Uncontrolled and nonsensical speech tends to be an episodic manifestation of Sydenham's chorea.

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