Lack of Benefit from Cervical Cord Stimulation for Dystonia

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To the Editor: Undue publicity has been given to continuous cervical-cord stimulation by means of extradurally implanted electrodes for the treatment of torsion dystonia. A "case report" of one person said to have generalized dystonia appeared on the television program That's Incredible! and in the large-circulation lay magazine Family Circle (2/26/85), but was never described in a professional journal. The case involved a young woman confined to a wheelchair and wearing body and limb braces, presumably because of generalized dystonia (the presence of micturition difficulty raises doubts about this diagnosis), who immediately became completely normal after stimulation of the cervical . . .

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