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News items on 'Dystonia'
'Surgeons put electrodes in my brain to cure my nasty neck spasms'
(Daily Mail 19/01/2009)
Some 40,000 Britons suffer from dystonia, a neurological disorder that causes the body to spasm involuntarily. Helen Barber, an administrator from Dronfield in Derbyshire, benefited from a new procedure. "Ten years ago, when I was working as a waitress, I used to carry heavy trays on my right shoulder...I started to feel as though my head was continually turning to the left."
Surgery success
(BBC 10/01/2009)
A five-year-old boy has become the smallest patient to undergo deep brain stimulation at a London hospital. Thomas Melville-Ross has had electrodes inserted in his brain as a treatment for dystonia - a condition which causes involuntary muscles contractions. At just 12.6kg (2 stones) - his size meant the operation was only possible due to the development of a new small implant.
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