Dystonia is a neurological (brain and spine-related) movement disorder that causes your muscles to contract involuntarily, resulting in uncontrolled and repetitive body movements. This condition ...

People with functional tremors often have conversion disorder (a psychological condition that produces physical symptoms) or another psychiatric condition. Dystonic tremors affect people who have ...

They produce different symptoms and affect different body parts. In some cases, dystonia may affect the whole body. Some people also have tremors and other neurologic features. Depending on the ...

Essential tremors typically occur on both sides of the body, but symptoms are generally more ... with MS and other neurological disorders. Dystonic tremors involve involuntary twisting or jerking ...

In some forms of the condition, the patient may also experience tremor. Dystonia is ... First, the symptoms and features of the dystonia are established in order to determine which form of ...

Sodium oxybate (Xyrem), a drug approved to treat people with narcolepsy, provided temporary relief for laryngeal dystonia patients whose symptoms ... those who had voice tremor.

This leads to classic symptoms, such as tingling ... enhanced Physiological tremors, dystonic tremors, nutritional deficiencies, thyroid disorders, drug dependence or withdrawal.

Dystonic Tremor: Commonly seen in people with dystonia ... start on one side of the body and progress gradually. Other symptoms accompany Parkinson’s tremors, such as muscle stiffness, slowness ...

None of the many doctors and health professionals I consulted suspected my symptoms ... with one hand? Tremors of the body affect more than 800,000 Australians and dystonia is the third-most ...

Laryngeal dystonia (LD), a rare neurological disease ... or those who had additional voice symptoms, such as voice tremor. Voice symptoms in alcohol-responsive LD patients significantly improved ...

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