When Peter Cohen entered a public swimming pool recently, he was greeted with several rounds of applause. Cohen is not a person whom one would normally expect to be met with such a reception; he has ...

Sodium oxybate provided temporary relief for laryngeal dystonia patients who were alcohol-responsive. The neurologic disorder causes laryngeal muscle spasms, leading to a chronically strained voice.

Children and adolescents who received deep brain stimulation for generalized dystonia maintained significant symptom relief for up to eight years, according to a study. The results reinforce the ...

When 64-year-old Mesquite resident Charlene Lacenski visits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health to see her doctor, she might as well be carrying a microphone and standing under a ...

(WISH) — People with a disorder called dystonia experience involuntary muscle contractions. It causes painful contortions and limited movement. Treatment includes costly drugs, injections, and ...

(LOUISVILLE)-- Over 300,000 Americans are diagnosed with the often disabling neurological movement disorder: dystonia. Among 11-year-old Jacob Spielberg from Louisville -- the first person in ...

Dystonia, a group of diseases that cause a patient's muscles to involuntary contract with movement, has had a relatively limited and ineffective number of treatments in the past. New research shows ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) – People with a disorder called dystonia experience involuntary muscle contractions, causing painful contortions and limiting movement. Surgeons have a simple ...

DaxibotulinumtoxinA for Injection for treatment for cervical dystonia met the primary and all secondary endpoints in the phase 3 ASPEN-1 study, according to topline results released today by Revance ...

Any musician will tell you, making music is their passion. But for 22-year-old Megan Coiley, her drive to become a virtuoso almost ended her career. Coiley started playing piano when she was just 3 ...

Dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD) encompasses a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders that typically manifest as limb-onset dystonia that fluctuates diurnally and improves with ...