Dystonia Canada News
Toronto Star - August 4, 2016 - Kerry Gillespie. Ian Kent who has dystonia, has been competitive from the moment he and his older brother started playing in the basement as kids in the 1970s through to more recent years when, despite his disability, he continued to beat everyone in Nova Scotia, including his adult sons, in able-bodied table tennis. More
Read more...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.
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