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Actress Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) had an essential tremor, possibly inherited from her grandfather, [93] that caused her head—and sometimes her hands—to shake. [ 94 ] [ 95 ] [ 96 ] The tremor was noticeable by the time of her performance in the 1979 film The Corn Is Green , when critics mentioned the "palsy that kept her head ...
A tremor is an involuntary, [1] somewhat rhythmic muscle contraction and relaxation involving oscillations or twitching movements of one or more body parts. It is the most common of all involuntary movements and can affect the hands, arms, eyes, face, head, vocal folds, trunk, and legs.
English: Photograph by Jervis C. Deane of two locomotives prior to their head-on collision as part of a publicity stunt in 1896 at Crush, Texas, USA. Deane lost an eye from the boilers exploding.
Stereotypic movement disorder (SMD) is a motor disorder with onset in childhood involving restrictive and/or repetitive, nonfunctional motor behavior (e.g., hand waving or head banging), that markedly interferes with normal activities or results in bodily injury. [1]
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) use a modified version, on which the clenched fist is replaced with two hands shaking. The hands are in white and black lines respectively, and some branches color the skins beige and brown, a reference to race and ethnicity issues and to the civil rights movement.
Two people shaking hands Richard Nixon shaking hands with Pope Paul VI. A handshake is a globally widespread, brief greeting or parting tradition in which two people grasp one of each other's hands, and in most cases, it is accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands. Customs surrounding handshakes are specific to cultures.
Before and after photos of the deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area have sent tens of thousands scrambling for safety and decimated neighborhoods.
body rocking, where the whole body is moved while on the hands and knees. head banging, where the head is forcibly moved in a back and forth direction. head rolling, where the head is moved laterally while in a supine position. Other less common muscle movements include: body rolling, where the whole body is moved laterally while in a supine ...