[Post-traumatic focal fixed dystonia of the shoulder: a distinctive syndrome with speculative mechanisms?]

A Drouet; L Have; O Jacquin; L Guilloton; D Felten

doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2008.10.025

[Post-traumatic focal fixed dystonia of the shoulder: a distinctive syndrome with speculative mechanisms?]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 2009 Nov;165(11):975-9. doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.10.025. Epub 2009 Jan 20.

[Article in French]

Authors

A Drouet¹, L Have, O Jacquin, L Guilloton, D Felten

Affiliation

¹ Service de neurologie, hôpital d'instruction des armées-Desgenettes, 108, boulevard Pinel, 69275 Lyon cedex 03, France. drouetalain@yahoo.fr

PMID: 19157474
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.10.025

Abstract

Introduction: Whether post-traumatic focal fixed dystonia has a physiological or psychologically-mediated mechanism is discussed.

Case report: We report the case of an active 22-year-old soldier with shoulder-fixed dystonia, eight months after a fall with minor right-acromioclavicular sprain.

Conclusion: Psychiatric examination and search of complex regional pain syndrome, radicular or accessory nerve damage, and genetic predisposition to dystonia are necessary for selecting a difficult treatment in these patients.

Publication types

Case Reports
English Abstract

MeSH terms

Accidental Falls
Dystonia / diagnosis*
Dystonia / pathology
Humans
Male
Muscle, Skeletal / pathology
Pain / etiology
Shoulder Joint
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / diagnosis*
Syndrome
Young Adult