While the topic is light on research and dosage guidance, Botox can make a difference for patients who suffer from chronic writer’s cramp and other task-specific dystonias – or TSDs. These TSDs involve the abnormal activation of motor muscles while performing certain repetitive actions and are a subcategory of focal dystonias. Writer’s cramp was first […]

Tics may be genetic, caused by other medical conditions or occur by themselves and can involve either movements or sounds. Those involving unintended motor movements are usually sudden, quick, recurrent and nonrhythmic and are called motor tics. When an unintended sound is involved, the action is called a phonic tic. Motor tics, which anecdotal evidence […]

Spinal myoclonus is rare, but it can be annoying, painful and make certain actions difficult for the patient, depending on what part of the body is impacted. It involves quick, jerky muscle movements that originate from a spinal cord injury or operation. It can happen after laminectomy, lumbosacral radiculopathy, spinal extradural block and in other […]

Spasticity happens because of a lesion of the central nervous system that causes an abnormal increase in muscle tone. Common in cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis, spasticity can also be the result of traumatic damage to the brain, spine or motor nerves that cause muscle tightening from prolonged contraction. Treatment for spasticity can be as […]

Spasmodic dysphonia can seriously impact the lives of those who suffer from it. Patients with this vocal disorder may speak with a cracking voice, a tight, strangled or strained voice or even be unable to speak at all. But Botox for spasmodic dysphonia has been shown in clinical research to help many of those who […]