Woman ‘Terrified’ after rare development ‘Hand Hand Syndrome’

Et, phone 911.

Imagine sitting at home in your bed when one of your hands begins to move its own deal – and you are powerless to stop it.

This is what happened to an unidentified 77-year-old woman, whom doctors diagnosed with “Hand Hand Syndrome”.

The woman had watched TV when she noticed that her left hand was moving on her own, as if she had possessed.

“Her left hand hit her face and hair as if someone was checking her,” the authors of the Strange 2014 case study wrote, which was published in the procedures of Baylor University Medical Center.

The condition is called “Hand Hand Syndrome” – and, although rare, it is quite disturbing.

“Alien Hand Syndrome, or Dr. Strangelove’s syndrome, is an interesting situation in which a person loses control of his or her hand, which begins to act independently,” they writes.

“The foreign hand can catch things and the person may have to use the other limb to release the objects from it. In the extreme, the foreign hand is reported to even kill the patient.”

The condition is typically caused by brain trauma, stroke or neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s.

There is no cure, although the situation can be managed through behavioral therapy such as holding a deceptive hand occupied with a task.

Symptoms can last with days – or years.

In the case of this elderly lady, this shocking phenomenon lasted only 30 minutes – the shortest recorded duration – though her left arm felt weak and numb.

Her husband helped her go to the hospital – that she was when she noticed that she was pulling her left foot while walking.

Doctors believe her foreign hand syndrome could have been brought about by a stroke after she took a break from taking her blood clots in anticipation of spinal surgery.

She gradually regained control of the left side of her body over the next six hours and was sent home.

The first well -known case of Alien Hand Syndrome was reported by German neurologist Kurt Goldstein in 1908.

Ahs is sometimes called Dr. Strangelove syndrome, after classic character of Stanley Kubrick, whose uncontrollable hand is repeatedly strives to perform a Nazi greeting.

A famous case included a woman who would try to fall off the shirt with her right hand, while her left hand unlocked.

Her left hand will also sometimes grip her cigarette without her permission and hit her on her face.