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Lisuride treatment of focal dystonias
Neurology, 1985Nine patients with various focal dystonias participated in a 12-week, double-blind, crossover comparison of the dopamine agonist, lisuride, and placebo. Lisuride produced mild objective and subjective improvement in six subjects, but the improvement was not sustained with continued therapy.
J G, Nutt +3 more
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Focal shoulder-elevation dystonia
Movement Disorders, 2000We describe 13 cases of isolated focal dystonia of the shoulder with dystonic elevation but without clinically obvious cervical dystonia. All had significant trapezius muscle hypertrophy and limitation of shoulder movement causing substantial morbidity.
R A, Wright, J E, Ahlskog
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WRITERS' CRAMP—A FOCAL DYSTONIA
Brain, 1982We have examined 29 subjects with writers' cramp (and 4 with typists' and one with pianists' cramp) and have noted two major groupings, simple and dystonic. We have observed spread from one to the other. We have seen repeatedly, in patients with isolated simple writers' cramp certain subtle physical signs which are found also in other basal ganglia ...
M P, Sheehy, C D, Marsden
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Hyoid muscle dystonia: A distinct focal dystonia syndrome
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2015Adult-onset dystonias are often segmental in distribution and preferentially affect the craniocervical muscles. Here we describe an overlooked muscle group involved in craniocervical dystonia - the hyoid muscles. Dystonia of these muscles results in anterior neck tightness, speech changes, and dysphagia.For this retrospective study we obtained a list ...
E, Norby +6 more
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Focal hand dystonia, mirror dystonia and motor overflow
Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2008Focal hand dystonia (FHD) is a syndrome of sustained muscle contraction, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures of the hand. Motor overflow, defined as unintentional muscle contraction that accompanies but is anatomically distinct from the primary dystonic movement, is a frequent but often unrecognized feature of FHD.
Oraporn, Sitburana, Joseph, Jankovic
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Practical Neurology, 2006
Dystonia is a disabling movement disorder that is characterised by repetitive sustained involuntary movements that lead to abnormal postures. It may affect the entire body, or a single body part. The most common types of focal dystonia are blepharospasm and cervical dystonia (spasmodic torticollis).
Peter T Lin, Ejaz A Shamim, Mark Hallett
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Dystonia is a disabling movement disorder that is characterised by repetitive sustained involuntary movements that lead to abnormal postures. It may affect the entire body, or a single body part. The most common types of focal dystonia are blepharospasm and cervical dystonia (spasmodic torticollis).
Peter T Lin, Ejaz A Shamim, Mark Hallett
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A genetic study of idiopathic focal dystonias
Annals of Neurology, 1991AbstractA genetic study of idiopathic focal dystonias was undertaken by examining 153 first‐degree relatives of 40 index patients with torticollis (14 patients), other focal cranial dystonias (16 patients), and writer's cramp (10 patients). Nine relatives with dystonia were identified in 6 families; 8 of these had symptoms such as clumsiness or tremor,
H M, Waddy +3 more
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A model of task-specific focal dystonia
Neural Networks, 2013Task-specific focal dystonia is a task-specific movement disorder which manifests itself as a loss of voluntary motor control in extensively trained movements. The condition is most frequent in musicians. Until today, the aetiology of focal hand dystonia is not completely understood, but there is growing evidence for an abnormal cortical processing of ...
Eckart Altenmüller, Dieter Müller
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Quality of life in patients with focal dystonia
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2009The aims of this study were to identify the clinical and demographic factors influencing health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and to compare HR-QoL measures between various types of focal dystonia (cervical dystonia, blepharospasm, and writer's cramp).We examined 157 consecutive patients with adult-onset primary focal dystonia, and HR-QoL was ...
Tatjana, Pekmezovic +6 more
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Toxicon, 2008
Focal hand dystonia (FHD) often presents as a task-specific disorder, but may generalize to other tasks or even become spontaneous. The difficulty for therapy is to relieve the dystonia, but not impair the ability of the hand for skillful movement. A variety of therapeutic approaches can be considered, but the most commonly used effective therapy is ...
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Focal hand dystonia (FHD) often presents as a task-specific disorder, but may generalize to other tasks or even become spontaneous. The difficulty for therapy is to relieve the dystonia, but not impair the ability of the hand for skillful movement. A variety of therapeutic approaches can be considered, but the most commonly used effective therapy is ...
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