Although gene mutations and other causes are increasingly recognised, most patients have primary dystonia without a specific cause. Although pathogenesis-targeted treatment is still elusive, the ...

Although gene mutations and other causes are increasingly recognised, most patients have primary dystonia without a specific cause. Although pathogenesis-targeted treatment is still elusive, the ...

Treatment options include medications, physical/speech therapy, surgery or some combination of the three. The most common dystonia medical treatment is medications that reduce the intensity of the ...

Dystonia is a challenging condition to diagnose and treat. Dystonia is often under-recognised in children, particularly in cerebral palsy, and frequently coexists with spasticity. This guide aims to ...

2 Other causes of spasticity include traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, central nervous system tumour or infarct, metabolic disorders and hydrocephalus. Dystonia is defined as ‘a movement ...

The instrument was to be particularly relevant to patients with craniocervical dystonia and sensitive to assess functional health and treatment effects in clinical trials and in daily clinical ...

Background Cerebral palsy is a common and a lifelong disabling neurodevelopmental disorder, we attempted to address the relative lack of evidence on the role of Trihexyphenidyl in the management of ...

We present the case of a 70-year-old woman with treatment-refractory diaphragmatic dystonia. Patient initially presented with blepharospasms followed by development of involuntary inspiratory spasms ...

In both groups the response to botulinum toxin treatment was superior to medical therapy (p<0.005). Surgical intervention for temporomandibular disorders was more frequent in the post-traumatic group ...

Experts from the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at BIDMC are leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of dystonia, a rare movement disorder characterized by excessive pulling of ...