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Neurologic Screening for Cerebellar Impairment or Brain Dysfunction

 

Supination and Pronation of the Forearm

This test is performed by a continuous rapid alternation of supination and pronation of the forearms. The inability to perform these movements speedily and smoothly is a feature of adiadochokinesia (inability to perform rapid alternating movements), a symptom of cerebellar disease.

 

 

 

 

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