This condition can affect one muscle or a group of muscles and causes symptoms like tremors in the neck, limbs, and torso and ...
is the most common presentation of focal dystonia, often leading to painful twisting movements of the head and neck. The standard treatment for cervical dystonia is periodic injections of ...
Cervical dystonia, otherwise known as spasmodic torticollis, is a rarely occurring condition that causes the muscles of the neck to undergo involuntary contractions. This leads them to twist into ...
had experienced slight tremors and neck pain from her late 20s, but when the symptoms worsened a few years ago, she became one of about 5,000 people in Wales to be told they have dystonia.
SD may occur isolated or as part of a segmental dystonia, when it is associated with involuntary spasms of the face, jaw and neck muscles (cranial or craniocervical dystonia). SD may also occur in ...
Treatments for generalised and focal dystonia, including pharmaceutical or surgical options, focus predominately on the motor symptoms of the condition. Conservative therapies that have been ...
Patients may also experience abnormal postures of their limbs or neck (dystonia), painful rigidity, limb jerking (myoclonus), lack of movement (akinesia) and eventually irreversible contractures with ...
Incobotulinumtoxin A is under clinical development by Merz Therapeutics and currently in Phase II for Unspecified Musculoskeletal Disorders.