The impairment is task-specific for speech, leaving other functions of orofacial muscles, such as chewing or swallowing, unaffected (Kiziltan and Akalin, 1996), even though subtle, mostly subclinical ...

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The sensation of pain in the jaw, face or head is never owing to just one cause. The body tends not to package its pain in ...

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Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, Central, Medline, Embase, PsycINFO. Randomised controlled trials of psychosocial interventions for chronic orofacial pain were included. Psychosocial ...

Background: Primary dystonia is a chronic neurological movement disorder that causes abnormal muscle movements. Pain and emotional distress may accompany these physical symptoms. Behavioural ...

Assessment of orofacial praxis may help in the diagnosis. Patients with CBS are significantly more impaired in demonstrating multiple sequential gestures than those with PSP.

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Now a passionate runner and disability advocate, Kidson, a Kingstonian and PTS4 para-triathlete, is using her journey to challenge perceptions of what it means to live with dystonia. Through sport ...

Tyler’s Hope started when Tyler Staab was diagnosed with dystonia after years of searching for a diagnosis. He was 7 years old when his parents noticed that his arm started shaking uncontrollably. At ...

Cervical dystonia (CD) was identified as a disorder involving the brain’s sensorimotor network, with the cerebellum playing a key but not fully understood role. Researchers conducted a retrospective ...