How to Use dystonia in a Sentence

dystonia

noun

• Some people can have the full dystonia where a part of the body becomes almost like rigid to a board or like a statue. ...
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
• The cause of dystonia isn't known, but some forms are inherited, states Mayo Clinic.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Klein, one of the world’s leading orchestral oboists, who had joined the orchestra during the Daniel Barenboim era, has been battling focal hand dystonia.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Their oldest son, 20-year-old Tyler, has a neurological disease called dystonia that bounds him to a wheelchair.
  — Jordan McPherson, miamiherald, 6 Apr. 2018
• Instead, the walk is more of a community event aimed at spreading awareness, as many people with dystonia have trouble walking.
  — Katrina Pross, Twin Cities, 21 June 2019
• Desiree updated her friends and family on her condition with posts and videos on Facebook, claiming that doctors had landed on dystonia and linked it to the flu vaccine.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The Sesame Workshop said in a statement that the legendary puppeteer lived for some time with dystonia, which causes involuntary muscle contractions.
  — Andrew Dalton, SFChronicle.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• The legendary puppeteer lived for some time with dystonia, which causes involuntary muscle contractions, the Sesame Workshop said in a statement.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• He was diagnosed with focal hand dystonia, and was devastated to hear there was no immediate cure.
  — Fox News, 31 May 2018
• So just about any science on laryngeal dystonia seemed worth volunteering for.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 10 Feb. 2020
• The patient reported on in this paper suffered Parkinsonian symptoms from birth, until he was diagnosed with dystonia at age 5 and started on L-dopa to boost his dopamine levels.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2010
• His younger sister, Samantha, 17, also suffers from dystonia and sometimes has trouble walking.
  — Jenna West, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Pianists and guitarists can suffer from this focal hand dystonia, just as De Quervain’s disease affects trumpet and trombone players as well as tennis players.
  — Orthocincy, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Having failed other medical therapies for obesity, the three agreed to volunteer for dbs, a treatment already approved for treating the tremors and dystonia of Parkinson’s disease.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2012
• Spinney had been living with dystonia, which causes involuntary muscle contractions, for some time, Sesame Workshop said.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2019
• Huston has a neurological condition called cervical dystonia which causes the neck muscles to contract involuntarily, which in turn can force the head to twist or turn to one side, or tilt forward or backwards.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
• Spinney passed away at his Connecticut home after battling dystonia, a common movement disorder.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 8 Dec. 2019
• This April, doctors finally diagnosed him with tongue protrusion dystonia, a neurological disorder that is so rare there are no doctors who specialize in treating it.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2017
• Approximately 1 percent of musicians suffer from dystonia severe enough to impair their performance, among them virtuoso pianists Leon Fleischer and the late Glenn Gould.
  — Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• According to the Times, the Staab's oldest child, Tyler, 20, suffers from a neurological condition called dystonia, which causes involuntary muscle contractions.
  — Jenna West, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• These brain changes also put professional musicians at risk for developing dystonia.
  — Iris Kulbatski, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
• The Staab family have two children who suffer from dystonia, which is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions.
  — Mark Heim, AL.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• These include chronic migraine, blepharospasm (eyelid spasms), severe sweating, overactive bladder and cervical dystonia.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
• Following her flu and respiratory episodes recently in the emergency room, she's been experiencing new neurological symptoms, including dystonia, a movement disorder.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 7 May 2020

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024