ArticleMovement disorders clinical practice
Similarity of Involuntary Postures between Different Children with Dystonia.
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- Modeling cerebral palsy in animals.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2026Review
- Tasks for assessing dystonia in young people with cerebral palsy.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Dystonia in individuals with spastic cerebral palsy and isolated periventricular leukomalacia.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2023Article
- Home-Based Measurements of Dystonia in Cerebral Palsy Using Smartphone-Coupled Inertial Sensor Technology and Machine Learning: A Proof-of-Concept Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Gait features of dystonia in cerebral palsy.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2021Article
- Sex may influence motor phenotype in a novel rodent model of cerebral palsy.Neurobiology of disease · 2020Article
- Deep Brain Stimulation Initiative: Toward Innovative Technology, New Disease Indications, and Approaches to Current and Future Clinical Challenges in Neuromodulation Therapy.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundAbnormal involuntary postures are characteristic of dystonia, but the specific postures observed clinically have not previously been categorized or enumerated. The objective of this study was to determine whether there is a set of specific postures that are common between different children with dystonia.
methodsVideotapes were examined from all children who were seen in a pediatric movement disorders clinic over a 4-year period and had a diagnosis of nonpsychogenic dystonia. In total, 179 children were included in the video review.
resultsVisually similar postures were identified in 152 different children. Seven different common postures were identified. All 152 children exhibited at least 1 of these postures, and most had more than 1.
conclusionsInvoluntary postures in childhood dystonia exhibit unexpected similarities despite a wide range of underlying etiology, severity, and developmental experience. This is consistent with the hypothesis that childhood dystonia is a symptom that reflects a shared pathway of expression for multiple anatomic and functional abnormalities.
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