What Is Locked In Syndrome?
9. Similar Conditions
A patients inability to communicate will make it very easy for medical professionals to come to a diagnosis. This means that locked-in syndrome will sometimes be misdiagnosed as being something else. In some instances, they are diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, despite the patient having full cognitive ability.
Akinetic mutism is a condition in which the patient shows almost identical symptoms to people with locked-in syndrome. In this case, however, their immobility is down to a lack of “will” to move. Testing is often required to get a correct diagnosis of what exactly is causing the victims condition.
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