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What is Dystonia and How is it Treated?

Dystonia is a movement disorder that causes muscles to contract involuntarily, often leading to repetitive or twisting movements in different parts of the body. While the condition is not typically painful, the involuntary movements can really impact a person's daily life, but there are treatment options available. University of Utah Health neurologist and movement disorder specialist Panagiotis Kassavetis, MD, PhD, explains what dystonia is, the treatment options available, and why seeing a specialist or movement disorder clinic is so important to help manage dystonia.

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Anne Austin Young was born in 1892. In a day when relatives and friends threw up their hands in horror at the thought of a woman physician and when people in her home town of Cross Hill referred to the future Dr. Young as "that crazy Anne Austin." She dedicated her life to the study and practice of medicine, primarily as an obstetrician-gynecologist. In more than sixty–five years of practicing medicine in Anderson, she delivered more than 10,000 babies. She also worked as a mental retardation physician, and was instrumental in obtaining state funding to start Whitten Village in 1916 in Clinton, SC. Anne Austin Young died in 1989.