This article appeared in the Dystonia Dialogue. “In my family, we were all aware that my father had a problem with his hands,” explained Carole Rawson, “and my parents’ generation was one in which, if there was something bad going on, you didn’t talk about it. He was very closed-lipped about it.” Carole’s father went […]
This article originally appeared in the Dystonia Dialogue. “During my fellowship training at Duke, the faces of dystonia patients with painful postures and tremors stayed with me,” said Noreen Bukhari-Parlakturk, MD, PhD, a movement disorder neurologist and clinical investigator at Duke Neurological Disorders Clinic. “Their stories of resilience and optimism—despite daily hardship and social misunderstanding—inspired […]
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