Kara Goucher is nothing if not resilient. Yesterday, Goucher and Altra — the footwear brand that has backed the decorated competitive runner since 2018 — led a workout for media members at the Michael ...

Abigail Brown has been living with Dystonia since she was 3 years old. Brown, from Stillwater, contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever but was misdiagnosed, resulting in brain damage that left her ...

GRANT, Mich. -- Megan Wirts' lips are her canvas and bright red lipstick is her paint. It's safe to say that Wirts, who is a mother of two, loves makeup. But putting on that makeup takes Wirts a long ...

Chances are you have never heard of dystonia because it is a rare disorder. Yet here, just in the Puget Sound area, there are probably 80 to 100 people who suffer regularly — often silently — from ...

As many as 250,000 people in the United States suffer from dystonia. It is the third-most common movement disorder behind essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. With September being Dystonia ...

Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer behind the iconic Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch died Sunday at the age of 85. He passed away at his Connecticut home after living with dystonia, ...

Dystonia is a neurologic movement disorder characterized by involuntary, sustained, patterned, repetitive muscle contractions, usually of opposing muscles. These contractions, which typically affect ...

A medical laboratory technician performs a microscopic examination of a blood smear in 2017. A new award will help early career researchers who study dystonia, the Michael J. Fox Foundation announced ...

"He could not sit on a chair, he had to lie down in a bed or on the floor. He could not write his name on a piece of paper. The poor boy was basically wheelchair bound," Michele Tagliati, M.D., FAAN, ...