Rigidity
Rigidity: Introduction
Rigidity: When there is inflexibility or stiffness.
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Causes of Rigidity:
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Rigidity: Symptom Checker
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Causes of Similar Symptoms to Rigidity
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- Abdominal rigidity
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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Rigidity: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Home Diagnostic Testing and Rigidity
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Causes of Rigidity listed in Disease Database:
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causes of Rigidity as a symptom include:
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Medications or substances causing Rigidity:
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible
causes of Rigidity as a symptom.
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including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
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medications causing Rigidity
Drug interactions causing Rigidity:
When combined, certain drugs, medications, substances or toxins may react
causing Rigidity as a symptom.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
- Phenelzine and SSRI antidepressant interaction
- Nardil and SSRI antidepressant interaction
- Parnate and SSRI antidepressant interaction
- Furazolidone (Furoxone) and Buspirone (BuSpar) interaction
- Furazolidone (Furoxone) and Citalopram (Celexa) interaction
- Furazolidone (Furoxone) and Dextromethorphan interaction
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drug interactions causing Rigidity
Definitions of Rigidity:
Rigidity: (1) Stiffness or inflexibility. SYN: rigor (1). (2) In psychiatry and clinical psychology, an aspect of personality characterized by a person's resistance to change. (3) In neurology, one type of increase in muscle tone at rest; characterized by increased resistance to passive stretch, independent of velocity and symmetric about joints; increases with activation of corresponding muscles in the contralateral limb. Two basic types are cogwheel rigidity and lead-pipe rigidity.nuchal rigidity. [L. rigidus, rigid, inflexible]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Motor impairment whereby the hypertonic state is charcterized by bidirectional increased resistance to passive movement.
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Detailed list of causes of Rigidity
The list below shows some of the causes of Rigidity mentioned in various sources:
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How Common are these Causes of Rigidity?
This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases,
not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Rigidity.
Of the 96
causes of Rigidity that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 1
causes are "very common" diseases
- 3
causes are "common" diseases
- 0
causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 5
causes are "rare" diseases
- 3
causes are "very rare" diseases
- 87
causes have no prevalence information.
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causes of Rigidity
Conditions listing symptoms: Rigidity:
The following list of conditions
have 'Rigidity' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
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of any symptom.
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... rigidityA
Acute Bokhoror
... rigidityAcute Viliuisk Encephalitis
... rigidityAcute Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis
... rigidityAcute Vilyuisk Encephalitis
... rigidityAcute Vilyuisk Encephalomyelitis
... rigidityADANE
... rigidityAlpers Syndrome
... rigidityAlpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase deficiency
... rigidityAngiokeratoma - mental retardation - coarse face
... rigidityAromatic amino acid decarboxylase deficiency
... rigidityB
Basal Ganglia Disease, Adult-Onset
... rigidityC
Catatonic syndrome
... rigidityCeroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 3, Juvenile
... rigidityCeroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 9
... rigidityChromosome 1, monosomy 1q25 q32
... rigidityCorticobasal Degeneration
... rigidityCreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
... rigidityCutis verticis gyrata mental deficiency
... rigidityD
Dementia With Lewy Bodies
... rigidityF
Fahr's Syndrome
... rigidityFebrile Seizures
... rigidityFrontotemporal dementia
... rigidityG
Gangliosidosis generalized GM1, type 1
... decerebrate rigidityGM1 gangliosidosis
... decerebrate rigidityH
Hydroxyacyl-coa dehydrogenase, type 2, deficiency
... rigidityI
Idiopathic Parkinson's disease
... rigidityInfantile parkinsonism
... rigidityM
Machado-Joseph Disease
... rigidityMetachromatic Leukodystrophy
... rigidityMitochondrial Parkinson's disease
... rigidityMultiple system atrophy
... rigidityN
Neuroferritinopathy
... rigidityNeuroferritinopathy (adult-onset basal ganglia disease)
... rigidityNeuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
... rigidityO
Olivopontocerebellar atrophy, type V
... rigidityOrnithine transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
... rigidityOrnithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency
... rigidityP
Pallidopyramidal syndrome
... rigidityParkinson disease 10 (PARK10)
... rigidityParkinson disease 11 (PARK11)
... rigidityParkinson disease 12 (PARK12)
... rigidityParkinson disease 13 (PARK13)
... rigidityParkinson disease 2, autosomal recessive juvenile (PARK2)
... rigidityParkinson disease 3, autosomal dominant Lewy body (PARK3)
... rigidityParkinson disease 4, autosomal dominant Lewy body (PARK4)
... rigidityParkinson disease 5 (PARK5)
... rigidityParkinson disease 6, autosomal recessive early-onset (PARK6)
... rigidityParkinson disease 7, autosomal recessive early-onset (PARK7)
... rigidityParkinson disease 8 (PARK8)
... rigidityParkinson disease 9 (PARK9)
... rigidityParkinson disease, familial, type 1 (PARK1)
... rigidityParkinson disease, juvenile, autosomal recessive
... rigidityParkinson's Disease
... rigidityParkinson's disease dementia, familial
... rigidityPick's disease of the brain
... rigidityS
SCHAD deficiency
... rigiditySegawa syndrome, autosomal recessive
... rigiditySlowly Progressive Bokhoror
... rigiditySlowly Progressive VE
... rigiditySlowly Progressive Viliuisk Encephalitis
... rigiditySlowly Progressive Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis
... rigiditySlowly Progressive Vilyuisk Encephalitis
... rigiditySlowly Progressive Vilyuisk Encephalomyelitis
... rigiditySpastic paraparesis deafness
... rigiditySpinocerebellar ataxia 21
... rigiditySpinocerebellar ataxia, X-linked, 2
... rigiditySpleen conditions
... RigidityT
Tay-Sachs disease - juvenile onset
... decerebrate rigidityType 10 17b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency
... rigidityW
Wells Jankovic syndrome
... RigidityWestphal disease
... RigidityWolfram's disease
... RigidityWoods Black Norbury syndrome
... Rigidity
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Causes of Rigidity Based on Risk Factors
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Classifications of Rigidity:
Subtypes of Rigidity:
Decerebrate rigidity (4 causes)
Medical Conditions associated with Rigidity:
Muscle spasms (1689 causes), Seizures (2041 causes), Muscle symptoms (4254 causes), Movement symptoms (2556 causes), Spasms (1848 causes)
Symptoms related to Rigidity:
Spasticity (240 causes), Muscle symptoms (4254 causes), Stiffness (629 causes), Muscle weakness (3746 causes), Parkinson's disease, Catatonic syndrome due to other CNS causes, Catatonic schizophrenia, Neuroleptic induced catatonia, Seizure (2041 causes), Status epilepticus, Malignant hyperthermia, Tetany (19 causes), Dystonic reaction, Huntington's disease
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