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Botulinum Toxin Physiology in Focal Hand and Cranial Dystonia [PDF]
Toxins, 2012 The safety and efficacy of botulinum toxin for the treatment of focal hand and cranial dystonias are well-established. Studies of these adult-onset focal dystonias reveal both shared features, such as the dystonic phenotype of muscle hyperactivity and ...
Barbara Illowsky Karp
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Effectiveness of rTMS and retraining in the treatment of focal hand dystonia [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Though the pathophysiology of dystonia remains uncertain, two primary factors implicated in the development of dystonic symptoms are excessive cortical excitability and impaired sensorimotor processing.
Teresa Jacobson Kimberley +4 more
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The Pathophysiology of Focal Hand Dystonia [PDF]
Journal of Hand Therapy, 2009 NARRATIVE REVIEW: Focal hand dystonia is a disabling movement disorder, often task specific, that leads to impaired hand use. In addition to a genetic predisposition, environmental risk factors including repetitive use and musculoskeletal constraints are contributory.
Peter T, Lin, Mark, Hallett
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Sensitivity and pain in focal dystonia of the hand
Neurología (English Edition), 2022 A growing body of evidence highlights the importance of understanding both the sensory and the motor pathophysiology of focal dystonia in order to improve its treatment. This study aims to evaluate somatosensory afferences in patients with focal or segmental dystonia affecting the upper limbs, to analyse whether the dominant limb is more frequently ...
Pérez-de-Heredia-Torres, M +5 more
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Electrically Induced Sensory Trick in a Patient with Musician’s Dystonia: A Case Report
Brain Sciences, 2023 A sensory trick is a specific maneuver that temporarily improves focal dystonia. We describe a case of musician’s dystonia in the right-hand fingers of a patient, who showed good and immediate improvement after using an electrical stimulation-mimicking ...
Daisuke Nishida +4 more
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Reorganization of the Human Somatosensory Cortex in Hand Dystonia [PDF]
Journal of Movement Disorders, 2012 Background and Purpose: Abnormalities of finger representations in the somatosensory cortex have been identified in patients with focal hand dystonia.
Maria Jose Catalan +3 more
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Dystonia, 2023 According to expert consensus, dystonia can be classified as focal, segmental, multifocal, and generalized, based on the affected body distribution. To provide an empirical and data-driven approach to categorizing these distributions, we used a data ...
J. R. Younce +17 more
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Focal Dystonias of the Hand and Upper Extremity [PDF]
The Journal of Hand Surgery, 2008 Hand dystonia can cause substantial functional disability and is frequently misdiagnosed. In general, dystonia is a disabling disorder of motor control characterized by excessive muscle contractions that can produce involuntary movements and abnormal postures. Prevalence of dystonia can be as high as 1 in 2500 people.
Torres-Russotto, Diego +1 more
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Clinical-pathomorphological correlation in patients with symptomatic dystonias [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2002 Symptomatic dystonia can be the result of various metabolic, degenerative diseases, the consumption of certain medications or exposure to toxic agents.
Ivanović Nataša +4 more
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Temporal expectation in focal hand dystonia [PDF]
Brain, 2013 Patients with writer's cramp present sensory and representational abnormalities relevant to motor control, such as impairment in the temporal discrimination between tactile stimuli and in pure motor imagery tasks, like the mental rotation of corporeal and inanimate objects.
AVANZINO, LAURA +7 more
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