UK sources of information and / or support

  Tics/Twitches/Grunts - Responding helpfully to a Child or Young Person who Appears to have Tics.

Information from HandsOnScotland.

 Tourette syndrome and tic management

Information from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.

 Managing tics in the classroom

Information from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.

 Tics

Information from BBC health online.

 Tics

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

See also the Patient UK Tourette page. (Tourette's syndrome is one cause of tics.)

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.