Botulinum Toxin Therapy
What is Botulinum Toxin Therapy ?
Botulinum toxin injection therapy (BOTOX therapy) is used to treat dystonia - neuromuscular disorder that produces involuntary muscle contractions, or spasm - that affects muscles that control movement in the eyes, neck, face, limbs, voice box, or the smooth muscle in the bladder. The goal of the therapy is to reduce muscle spasm and pain.
Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxin is produced by Clostridium botulinum. There are seven known types of C. botulinum toxin, but only types A; (BOTOX Cosmetic) and B (Myobloc) are used as medical treatments.
Which diseases are treated by Botulinum Toxin Therapy?
- Blepharospasm–forceful involuntary closure of the eyelids
- Hemifacial spasm–sudden contraction of the muscles on one side of the face
- Spasmodic torticollis, or Cervical dystonia–muscle spasm in the neck that causes the head to turn to one side, and sometimes forward or backward
- Oromandibular dystonia–continuous spasms of the face, jaw, neck, tongue, larynx, and in severe cases, the respiratory system
- Limb spasticity (e.g., following stroke, spinal cord injury)
- Chronic Migraine
- Spasmodic dysphonia–spasm of the vocal cords that causes sudden disruption of speech
- Urinary retention–severe inability to urinate that requires catheterization
- Voice tremor
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Electroencephalography (EEG) is electrophysiological monitoring method to record electrical activity of the brain. EEG refers to the recording of the brain's spontaneous electrical activity over a period of time, as recorded from multiple electrodes placed on the scalp.
A video EEG (electroencephalograph) records what you are doing or experiencing on video tape while an EEG test records your brainwaves.
A Nerve conduction study is an electrical test that is used to determine the adequacy of the conduction of the nerve impulse as it courses down a nerve. This test is used to detect signs of nerve injury.
Electromyography (EMG) measures muscle response or electrical activity in response to a nerve’s stimulation of the muscle. The test is used to help detect neuromuscular abnormalities.
RNS is an electrodiagnostic test which is used to assess the neuromuscular junction (NMJ).
A visual evoked potential is an evoked potential caused by a visual stimulus, such as an alternating checkerboard pattern on a computer screen. Responses are recorded from electrodes that are placed on the back of your head and are observed as a reading on an electroencephalogram (EEG).
A brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) test measures how your brain processes the sounds you hear. The BAER test records your brainwaves in response to clicks or other audio tones that are played for you. The test is also called a brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) or auditory brainstem response (ABR) test.
Botulinum toxin injection therapy (BOTOX therapy) is used to treat dystonia - neuromuscular disorder that produces involuntary muscle contractions, or spasm - that affects muscles that control movement in the eyes, neck, face, limbs, voice box, or the smooth muscle in the bladder. The goal of the therapy is to reduce muscle spasm and pain.
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