Voorbeelden van blepharospasm

• This process has been fastest in easily defined clinical situations such as focal dystonias - blepharospasm is a good example - and slowest in the more complex world of rehabilitation.

• The new treatment modality of botulinum toxin can make a significant impact on the quality of life of older patients with tremor, dystonia (particularly blepharospasm), and other involuntary movement.

• A wide range of benefits is available to sick and disabled people, including sufferers of blepharospasm, provided that they meet the conditions of entitlement.

• Eye exposure produces intense tearing, pain, conjunctivitis, and blepharospasm.

• Other symptoms include: dermal burns with vesicle formation; blepharospasm and photophobia.

• It is of two types: essential and reflex blepharospasm.

• Like blepharospasm, the frequency of contractions in hemifacial spasm may range from intermittent to frequent and constant.

• The benign essential blepharospasm is a focal dystoniaa neurological movement disorder involving involuntary and sustained contractions of the muscles around the eyes.