Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston ... 2 Except for botulinum toxin in patients with cervical dystonia and high-dose ...

Dystonia is a common disorder of movement and tone, characterised by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing abnormal movements, postures or both. Children and young people with dystonia ...

The standard treatment for cervical dystonia is periodic injections of ... appears to be more efficacious than anticholinergic oral medications. Volkmann and colleagues (2014) aimed to ascertain ...

Other symptoms of dystonia include twisting of the neck (torticollis) or body (axial dystonia), head tremor (cervical dystonia), uncontrolled blinking of the eyes (blepharospasm), difficulty ...

Background Botulinum toxin (BoNT) is an effective first-line treatment for cervical dystonia. However, secondary non responsiveness to BoNT treatment remains a key reason for a discontinuation rate of ...

When it affects the head (cervical dystonia), it leads to bending of ... Certain drugs, such as lesuride and antipsychotic ...

nch.ma.uni-heidelberg.de Objectives: Surgical treatment of complex cervical dystonia and of cervical dyskinesias associated with cervical myelopathy is challenging. In this prospective study, the long ...

Dystonia may be treated with a combination of oral medications, botulinum toxin injections (Botox, Xeomin, Dysport and Myobloc), speech therapy, physical therapy and more. Our multidisciplinary team ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins were among the first to link dystonia with abnormal communication involving calcium among nerve cells. These studies led to a clinical trial of medications that influence ...

While the patient was on several dystonia medications, he was only able to recover partially, with temporary improvement. But, he did find substantial relief through lesioning surgery, which ...

Despite being on several dystonia medications, there was only partial, temporary improvement. However, he found substantial relief through Lesioning surgery (of the left ventro-oralis nucleus of ...

This therapy is available for patients with blepharospasm, hemifacial spasms, cervical dystonia/torticollis, upper limb spasticity and other medical indications. There are two medications used to ...