Task specific dystonia – a patients’ perspective

Musician's dystonia: an opinion on novel treatment strategies

“…By doing so, it aims to induce neuroplastic changes in the brain, promoting sensorimotor integration and normalizing aberrant neural activity associated with task-specific dystonia. Complementing this approach, modified Graded Motor Imagery (mGMI), as proposed by Ramella et al ( 2021 ) in line with Butler et al ( 2021 ), incorporates visual feedback training and mental imagery exercises, acknowledging the multidimensional feedback reprocessing required to recover from MD. Considering the relevance of multi-modal feedback in motor control, this strategy is designed to train visual feedback by performing visual exercises to reprocess the visual information from the dystonic hand, training movement without execution to alleviate dystonia-induced suffering, and performing the same motor exercises with both hands receiving visual feedback while looking at the non-dystonic hand together with its mirrored image replacing that of the dystonic hand (mirror box).…”