My name is Catalina Crainic and I am one of thousands of cervical dystonia patients. What is your work experience and how does it relate to dystonia? My experience was a new way of my life, it is an experience from which I have continued to learn. At first everything was confusing, unclear and hopeless,…
Living through Corona Virus Pandemic
Professor Emeritus Marjan Jahanshahi, UCL Institute of Neurology in London, is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist. She has been a speaker at many of our Dystonia Europe events where she has spoken about Living well with dystonia. Dystonia Europe has also featured her in a couple of videos that you can find on our Youtube…
D-DAYs 2020 & 6th International Dystonia Symposium in Dublin postponed until 2021.
The D-DAYs 2020 is postponed until 2021 Due to the situation with the Pandemic Covid 19, it has been decided to postpone the D-DAYs in Dublin until next year. We plan to hold the event in 2021 in Dublin, Ireland, along with the 6th Samuel Belzberg Dystonia Symposium. These measurements have been taken to ensure…
UK – Dystonia Society- Reach Out, Reach All
The Reach Out, Reach All project aims to bring the dystonia community together, through film, animation, podcasts and webinars. Dystonia can be an isolating condition. It can be scary not knowing what the diagnosis means, not only for yourself but also how it might affect your friends and family. Although the community is large, individuals can…
Italy – A.R.D. and COVID-19
On February 21 the first person with a COVID-19 diagnosis was reported in Lombardy, 60 km from Milan. Starting from that date, the number of persons infected with this virus began to increase rapidly in Northern Italy and slowly in the rest of the country. On March 11 our government decided for a lockdown of…