NICE, France — A new review suggests musician's focal task-specific dystonia (MFD) often occurs subsequent to a triggering factor, such as a change in technique or increase in practice, and that many ...

The cause of a patient's severe hand dystonia affecting three fingers had clinicians stumped, but tenacious clinical investigation eventually led them to make the call on this very unusual case. The ...

Saxophonist Joey Berkley lost his ability to play due to the muscular disorder focal dystonia, but experimental treatment has given him enough... An electrode in the brain restores the career of ...

Jim Stroud lay on a surgery table strumming his guitar. Awakened for a brief period during a seven-hour brain surgery Stroud needed to play while a surgeon monitored his brain. The moment was part of ...

Dystonia is a movement disorder that causes muscles to contract involuntarily, often leading to repetitive or twisting movements in different parts of the body. While the condition is not typically ...