# neurology /55/ FC our next step is to understand the clinical picture < I.e. how patient present to emergency room يعني شكل التشنجات الحصلت للطفل كيف وبسأل الام من شنو تحديدا but before dealing with this we should know first the types of convulsions , i.e : what do we mean by tonic , clonic , tonic-clonic , myoclonic tonic = contraction of the muscles= stiffness of muscles. clonic= rhythmic muscle contractions regularly repeating at a rate typically of 2-3 per second myoclonic=involve an extremely brief (< 0.1 second) muscle contraction and can result in jerky movements of muscles or muscle groups. All these are seizures and can be names as convulsions because of their motor nature other types of seizures , not motor , include simple : wither partial or complex + generalized types such as : absence , atonic.
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