Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Hyperkinetic movements
Hyperactive movements
HP:0002487
What it means
Motor hyperactivity with excessive movement of muscles of the body as a whole.
Rare diseases that can present with this24
Very common80–99%
3Common30–79%
7- Christianson syndrome
- FOXG1 syndrome
- Infantile hypotonia-oculomotor anomalies-hyperkinetic movements-developmental delay syndrome
- Intellectual disability-hyperkinetic movement-truncal ataxia syndrome
- Kidney tubulopathy-dilated cardiomyopathy syndrome
- Paroxysmal non-kinesigenic dyskinesia
- Pediatric-onset Graves disease
Sometimes5–29%
13- 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase deficiency
- Choreoacanthocytosis
- Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation in sleep
- Episodic ataxia type 7
- Fatal infantile lactic acidosis with methylmalonic aciduria
- HSD10 disease, infantile type
- Leigh syndrome
- Microcephalic cortical malformations-short stature due to RTTN deficiency
and 5 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Hyperkinesia · Hyperkinesis
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