Dystonia Canada News

The Toronto Star - Katrina Clarke   Read more...

 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

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CTV - Edmonton - Brenda Lewis discusses her journey with dystonia and her book "A Twisted Fate" Read more...

 Global TV Edmonton

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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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Published on Mar 18, 2015

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. 

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DMRF Canada is very pleased to announce the formation of the Vancouver Support Group with Co-Leaders Jackson Mooney and Robin Krantz.  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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 Edmonton Sun: Cam Tait, July 23, 2014 Local author is continuing to create her autobiography A Twisted Fate.   Read more...