ABSTRACT
The usual treatment for pathologies affecting motor control involves motor rehabilitation, which explains the wide consensus of the medical profession regarding the use of rehabilitation to treat dystonia.1 This therapy, which is now well developed and structured, aims to give patients as much independence as possible, in a palliative or curative way. Although physiotherapy seems to play an important role in the treatment of people suffering from dystonia, rehabilitation professionals have few reliable scientific studies upon which to build their approach, apart from the recent studies of Byl and McKenzie for writer’s cramp2 and an earlier study by Pierre Rondot on spasmodic torticollis.3 Nevertheless, from the different approaches presented in the literature dealing with the rehabilitation of dystonia, it seems that rehabilitation focused on correcting the clinical abnormalities observed in dystonia reduces its severity.
