Synkinesis is a neurological symptom in which a voluntary muscle movement causes the simultaneous involuntary contraction of other muscles. An example might be smiling inducing an involuntary contraction of the eye muscles, causing a person to squint when smiling.
Next Steps
The education of the patient plus the use of some extrinsic biofeedback tool allows the patient to modify his muscular action in the following way: Increase muscle activation in muscles that must move, but do not move Decreased muscle activation in muscles that do not have to move, but move