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Ellingen, 37, has athetoid spastic cerebral palsy because of complications at birth.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022

He was a victim of the athetoid type of cerebral palsy, marked by almost continual jerky movements that are worsened whenever the victim tries to execute the simplest task.

From Time Magazine Archive

The athetoid movements of the toes correspond to those of the fingers in point of action.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

She frequently complained of headache, and when she was exceedingly irritable and violent all the athetoid movements would be intensified.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

In an athetoid hand, says Starr, the interossei and lumbricales, which flex the metacarpo-phalangeal and extend the phalangeal joints, are affected; rarely are the long extensors and the long flexors affected.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)