Lacunar strokes arestrokescaused by the occlusion of a small branch of a larger blood vessel.
The symptoms fall within one of the following five categories.
Doctors use the technical term “pure motor paresis” to describe pure motor strokes.
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“Paresis” is muscle weakness.
The word “hemiparesis” means a weakness of one full side of the body.
If a person has only upper limb weakness, it would not be hemiparesis.
These areas of the nervous system activate muscles all over the body to move.
However, symptoms can also occur in any one of these parts alone.
Both the sensory and the motor abnormalities are felt on the same side of the body.
The face is not usually involved.
In true cases of this syndrome, people suffer from bothdysarthria(trouble speaking) and a clumsy hand.
As the name implies, a prominent feature of this syndrome is a disorder of speech called dysarthria.
Aside from dysarthria, people with this syndrome complain of theclumsiness of hand movementson one side of the body.
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