Ho Kook Lee

Myoclonus is a brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles. It has been classified into cortical, subcortical, spinal, and peripheral lesions12). Although many diseases have been reported as a cause of myoclonus8), only one recently reported a case of spinal myoclonus has been attributed to cervical herniated intervertebral disc (HIVD). The lumbar HIVD as a cause of myoclonus has not been reported yet.

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