Dystonia Canada News
Jean Sharon Abbott spent nearly all of her life believing she had an incurable condition that left her feeling "trapped" in her own body -- unaware that many of her symptoms could be easily treated with a pill.
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In Edmonton, AMI's Keith Gillard visits author Brenda Currey Lewis who was diagnosed with generalized dystonia when she was seven years old. Now as an adult, she's written a book about what it was like to grow up with an unusual disability.
Watch this You Tube video with Brenda Lewis discussing her journey with dystonia.
Read more...Wency Leung-The Globe and Mail. Joaquin Farias has spent the past two decades trying to understand dystonia, a confounding and sometimes debilitating syndrome believed to be the third-most-common neurological movement disorder, after essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/using-the-brain-to-retrain-the-body-to-overcome-dystonia/article23342529/
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The DMRF Canada Manitoba Support Group recently participated in a rond-table discussion on dystonia.
Read more...Date (Toronto, ON) – Unsung hero, thirty-one year old Franco Mazzella suffers constant pain caused by Myoclonus Dystonia, a rare form of dystonia, a debilitating neurological disorder that h
Read more...Oakville Beaver - Jon Kuiperij - Even when he was at a competitive disadvantage, Spencer Clough always held his own against other snowboarders. Now that he’s exclusively racing against fellow adaptive athletes, the 17-year-old St. Thomas Aquinas high school student is quickly realizing the sport might provide him with much more than an occasional medal. It may even take him to the Paralympics. More
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