Twitter Google Share on Facebook dystonia Medical Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia dys·to·ni·a (dĭs-tō′nē-ə) n. Abnormal tonicity of muscle, characterized by prolonged, repetitive muscle contractions that may cause twisting or jerking movements of the body or a body part. ...
This chapter focuses on a surgical approach to dystonia. Dystonia is a symptom complex of abnormal muscle contraction, affecting a single muscle group in one patient, while presenting in another as a generalized neurological syndrome involving multiple muscle groups of the whole body. Neuroaugmentation...
Dystonia is a heterogeneous neurologic disorder characterized by abnormal muscle contractions for which standard medical therapy is often inadequate. For such patients, therapeutic brain stimulation is becoming increasingly used. To review the evidence and effect sizes for treating different types of dystoni...
Dystonia is a neurological condition characterized by abnormal involuntary movements or postures owing to sustained or intermittent muscle contractions. Dystonia can be the manifesting neurological sign of many disorders, either in isolation (isolated dystonia) or with additional signs (combined dystonia). ...
Dystonia is a movement disorder characterized by patterned, directional, and sustained muscle contractions that produce abnormal, often twisting, postures or repetitive movements. Dystonia can result from a wide variety of causes, and clinicians must endeavor to elucidate its etiology in every patient in...
Dystonia is defined as sustained muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements, or abnormal postures. Classification of dystonia is based on three axes describing, for each patient, age at disease onset (early vs. adult), distribution of involved body sites (from focal to...
Dystonia refers to a movement disorder characterized by abnormal posture or movements, caused by involuntary muscle contractions or cramps. Latest Research and Reviews Disability trajectories individuals with spinal cord injury in mainland China: do psychosocial resources and diseases factors predict trajectori...
Dystonia is defined as involuntary sustained muscle contractions producing twisting or squeezing movements and abnormal postures. The movements can be stereotyped and repetitive and they may vary in speed from rapid to slow; sustained contractions can result in fixed postures. Dystonic disorders are class...
Dystonia is a movement disorder in which some of your body's muscles contract in ways you can't control.This can cause your body to twist and move in awkward ways. Dystonia can affect one muscle, a muscle group, or your entire body. Dystonia affects about 1% of the population, and you...
Dystonia is a movement disorders characterized by sustained and intermittent involuntary muscle contractions causing abnormal, often repetitive, movements, postures, or both (Albanese et al., 2013). The term dystonia refers to a heterogeneous group of hyperkinetic disorders, currently classified based on...