It was a cold Friday night when my body began to take away everything that was important to me. Friends, sports and school, in short, everything that was important to me as a teenager. I thought I had twisted my back while playing tennis and that the back pain was due to that. But when…

India, too, is now producing its own botulinumtoxin drug. It was recently introduced in the presence of Professor Dr Dirk Dressler in Mumbai. ‘We are glad that now also India belongs to the exclusive club of countries producing botulinum toxin drugs’, said Dressler. The product development and the installation of the manufacturing process was supervised…

Dear Friends, I send my very best wishes to you all as you celebrate Dystonia Europe’s thirtieth anniversary!  Many, many congratulations and thanks to the large number of people who have contributed so much to the successes of our organisation over those thirty years. This must include not only our DE Board members, staff, advisers,…

This year Dystonia Europe is celebrating its 30th Anniversary. Our organisation was formed as an association of national dystonia patient groups in Spoleto, Italy, on 18 June, 1993.  The name was European Dystonia Federation (EDF) This process had taken almost a year, with the first contacts at a workshop in Munich, followed by two preparatory…