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Practice Guideline
. 2016 Mar;123(3):251-8.
doi: 10.1007/s00702-015-1453-x. Epub 2015 Sep 14.

Strategies for treatment of dystonia

Dirk Dressler  1 , Eckart Altenmueller  2 , Roongroj Bhidayasiri  3 , Saeed Bohlega  4 , Pedro Chana  5 , Tae Mo Chung  6 , Steven Frucht  7 , Pedro J Garcia-Ruiz  8 , Alain Kaelin  9 , Ryuji Kaji  10 , Petr Kanovsky  11 , Rainer Laskawi  12 , Federico Micheli  13 , Olga Orlova  14 , Maja Relja  15 , Raymond Rosales  16 , Jaroslaw Slawek  17 , Sofia Timerbaeva  18 , Thomas T Warner  19 , Fereshte Adib Saberi  20
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Strategies for treatment of dystonia

Dirk Dressler et al. J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2016 Mar.

Erratum in

  • Erratum to: Strategies for treatment of dystonia.
    Dressler D, Altenmueller E, Bhidayasiri R, Bohlega S, Chana P, Chung TM, Frucht S, Garcia-Ruiz PJ, Kaelin A, Kaji R, Kanovsky P, Laskawi R, Micheli F, Orlova O, Relja M, Rosales R, Slawek J, Timerbaeva S, Warner TT, Saberi FA. Dressler D, et al. J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2016 Mar;123(3):259. doi: 10.1007/s00702-015-1471-8. J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2016. PMID: 26546035 No abstract available.

Abstract

Treatment of dystonias is generally symptomatic. To produce sufficient therapy effects, therefore, frequently a multimodal and interdisciplinary therapeutic approach becomes necessary, combining botulinum toxin therapy, deep brain stimulation, oral antidystonic drugs, adjuvant drugs and rehabilitation therapy including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, re-training, speech therapy, psychotherapy and sociotherapy. This review presents the recommendations of the IAB-Interdisciplinary Working Group for Movement Disorders Special Task Force on Interdisciplinary Treatment of Dystonia. It reviews the different therapeutic modalities and outlines a strategy to adapt them to the dystonia localisation and severity of the individual patient. Hints to emerging and future therapies will be given.

Keywords: Antidystonic drugs; Botulinum toxin; Deep brain stimulation; Dystonia; Interdisciplinary approach; Multimodal therapies; Rehabilitation therapy; Treatment strategies.

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