cervical dystonia
CERVICAL DYSTONIA : A CURRENT REVIEW
... that dystonia is due to decreased central ...in dystonia and that this was most likely secondary to a decrease of ...in cervical dystonia in 2002 by using magnetic resonance spectroscopy ...of ...
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Rationale and design of a prospective study: Cervical Dystonia Patient Registry for Observation of OnaBotulinumtoxinA Efficacy (CD PROBE)
... with cervical dystonia (CD) who are toxin naïve and/or new to the physicians ’ practices, or who had been in a clinical trial but received their last injection ≥ 16 weeks prior to ...
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Disrupted superior collicular activity may reveal cervical dystonia disease pathomechanisms
... (cervical dystonia patients and relatives) had an absence of superior collicular activation to looming ...the cervical dystonia patients between the loom, recede and random ...
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Pallidal neurostimulation versus botulinum toxin injections in the treatment of cervical dystonia: protocol of a randomized, sham-controlled trial (StimTox-CD)
... Another dystonia-specific tool applied to assess quality of life of patients suffering from cervical dystonia is the Craniocervical Dystonia Questionnaire ...
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The Cervical Dystonia Impact Profile (CDIP-58): Can a Rasch developed patient reported outcome measure satisfy traditional psychometric criteria?
... the Cervical Dystonia Impact Profile (CDIP-58), a rigorous Rasch measurement developed neurologic PROM, stands up to traditional psychometric criteria for three reasons: 1) provide traditional psychometric ...
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<p>Benefits, Safety, and Adjunct Modality Prevalences of Long-Term Botulinum Toxin Injections for Cervical Dystonia and Myofascial Neck Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study</p>
... Botulinum toxin (BTX) is a neurotoxic protein produced by Clostridium botulinum known to interfere with synaptic trans- mission by inhibiting the release of acetylcholine (ACh). 1 This mechanism would relax affected ...
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Long-term quality of life in cervical dystonia after treatment with abobotulinum toxin A: a 2-year prospective study
... Four botulinum toxins (BTXs) have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for cervical dystonia: onabotulinum toxin A (Ona-BTX A), abobotu- linum toxin A (Abo-BTX A), incabotulinum toxin A, and ...
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Cervical dystonia: a disorder of the midbrain network for covert attentional orienting
... of cervical dystonia remains unknown, recent animal and clinical experimental studies have indicated its probable ...of cervical dystonia and informs new concepts of disease ...and ...
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Quality of life in cervical dystonia after treatment with botulinum toxin A: a 24-week prospective study
... The effectiveness of CD treatment by botulinum toxin A injections has not been studied in Thai patients. Many ques- tionnaires are used to assess general and disease-specific HRQoL of CD patients before and after ...
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Patient considerations in the treatment of cervical dystonia: focus on botulinum toxin type A
... Abstract: Cervical dystonia is the most common form of focal dystonia characterized by involuntary muscle contractions causing abnormal movements and posturing of the head and neck and is associated ...
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A retrospective study to assess resource utilization in patients with cervical dystonia in the United Kingdom
... This study included adults aged 18 years old and above at the time of first diagnosis of CD (index date) between January 1, 2007 and January 31, 2011. The diagnosis was identified by a single Read code – “F138200: ...
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A Case of Posttraumatic Cervical Dystonia Treated with OnabotulinumtoxinA
... Cervical dystonia (CD) is a condition that typically presents with cervical muscle spasm, producing head tilt and cervical ...in cervical paraspin- al muscle ...
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Spectrum of practice in the routine management of cervical dystonia with abobotulinumtoxinA: findings from three prospective open-label observational studies
... Background: Cervical dystonia is a heterogeneous disorder with several possible presentations, for which first-line therapy is often botulinum toxin ...with cervical dystonia undergoing ...
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Cervical dystonia: effectiveness of a standardized physical therapy program; study design and protocol of a single blind randomized controlled trial
... CD: Cervical Dystonia; BTX: Botulinum toxin; PT: Physical therapy; RCT: Randomised Controlled Trial; KNGF: Royal Dutch Society for Physiotherapy; VvOCM: Society for Cesar and Mensendieck therapy; ASHP: ...
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Botulinum toxin type A in the treatment of patients with cervical dystonia
... Abstract: Dystonia is an involuntary movement involving twisting and turning of agonist and antagonist ...muscles. Cervical dystonia is isolated to neck ...
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Exploring factors related to physical activity in cervical dystonia
... Background: People with disabilities have reported worse health status than people without disabilities and receiving fewer preventive health services such as counseling around exercise habits. This is noteworthy ...
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Practice guideline update summary: Botulinum neurotoxin for the treatment of blepharospasm, cervical dystonia, adult spasticity, and headacheReport of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology
... 5 cervical dystonia; CI 5 confidence interval; CM 5 chronic migraine; DAS 5 Disability Assessment Scale; EM 5 episodic migraine; incoBoNT-A 5 incobotulinumtoxinA; onaBoNT-A 5 onabotu- linumtoxinA; QOL 5 ...
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Striving for more good days: patient perspectives on botulinum toxin for the treatment of cervical dystonia
... We found that symptom progression among the par- ticipants in our study was most frequently represented graphically by a bell-shaped pattern. A recently performed follow-up study (aiming to support the development of the ...
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Lower serotonin transporter binding in patients with cervical dystonia is associated with psychiatric symptoms
... SERTs are highly present in the diencephalon/mid- brain but are also present in striatum. SERTs in the stri- atum are highly outnumbered by DATs making it impossible to measure SERT in the striatum with [ 123 I]FP-CIT. ...
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Clinical and genetic features of cervical dystonia in a large multicenter cohort
... the Dystonia Coalition, Aller- gan, Vaccinex, Biotie, NIH, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, ORDR, and Merz; holds stock/stock options in VisualDx; and has acted as an expert witness in ...
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