Botulinum toxin injections in the treatment of musician’s dystonia
- 25 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 64 (2), 341-343
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000149768.36634.92
Abstract
The authors present the results of 84 musicians with focal task-specific dystonia treated with EMG-guided botulinum toxin injections. Treatment outcome was assessed by subjective estimation of playing before and after treatment and self-rating of treatment response. Fifty-eight (69%) of the musicians experienced improvement from the injections and 30 of 84 musicians (36%) reported long-term benefit in their performance ability.Keywords
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