Ataxias: Symptoms
General ataxia symptoms include:

• Poor coordination of the hands, arms, and/or legs.
• Alterations in walking and equilibrium, slowness, rigidity and awkwardness in movements.
• Dull, or incomprehensible speech (dysarthria)
• Difficulty stopping one movement and following it immediately with a movement in the opposite direction. (adiadochokinesia).

As the illness progresses, patients may exhibit additional symptoms related to other parts of the brain or the nervous system, such as an inability to move the eyes, weakness, tremor, spasticity, insanity, or loss of sensitivity in the feet and/or the hands.