From Friday, all the various appointments and examinations of dystonia patients will be carried out in one morning in the Movement Disorders Expertise Center at the UMCG. The research results are also directly assessed by a neurologist and patients are treated immediately.
Until now, patients with dystonia (a neurological disease in which muscles repeatedly or constantly contract) had to come to the UMCG several times for treatment. Once to make or confirm the diagnosis, a second time for an examination and a third time to be treated with botulinum toxin.
Botulin Street has been developed to improve this process. In one morning, a patient receives examinations, diagnostics and treatment. “Naturally, this saves our patients a lot of valuable travel time,” says Tjerk Lagrand, neurologist in training as a specialist at the UMCG. “Some patients sometimes had to drive for hours for an appointment that lasted only fifteen minutes. That is now a thing of the past. ”
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