What Are The Symptoms Of Sydenham’s Chorea?

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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