Dystonia
Dystonia is a disease that occurs with involuntary contractions in all or part of the body. The cause of the disease is a functional disorder in the deep brain centers that control movement.
Dystonia has various causes; the main ones are: brain damage during birth (cerebral palsy, cerebral palsy), drug-induced dyskinesias, structural and genetic causes (consanguineous marriages, etc.). Various surgical methods are used in the treatment of dystonias. These methods are largely similar to the surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease. The main ones are deep brain neurostimulation (brain pacemaker), thalamotomy, campotomy and pallidotomy.
The response of dystonia to surgical treatment varies. Surgical results vary from patient to patient. While some patients experience significant benefit after surgery, others experience less improvement. It is often difficult to predict the status of improvement before surgery. Most patients show a slow recovery in the long term, such as 3 to 24 months after surgery. Generally speaking, it can be said that drug-induced dyskinesias, dystonias affecting one side of the body, and genetic dystonias benefit more from surgery, while dystonias due to brain damage (cerebral palsy) occurring during birth benefit less.
