Welcome to Hope for Dystonia
Hello and welcome to hope for Dystonia, my name is Federico.
If you are watching this video, I assume either you or someone you love have been diagnosed with dystonia. Or maybe you haven’t, but you suspect your symptoms might be in some way related. Maybe you have spasms somewhere in your body that you cannot really control. Maybe you have neurological pain that seems to be related to tension in the body - for example, trigeminal neuralgia or pudendal neuralgia. Maybe you are noticing that the symptoms of your TMJ disorder are traveling down your body, or causing facial asymmetry. You are perhaps stuck in an unnatural posture, or can’t control certain repetitive movements.
Whatever the case, if you have gone as far as seeing a neurologist, you may have been told that there isn’t much that they can do for you other than giving you botox injections in the muscles that are spasming. If you’re lucky, this will give you some relief, and then you’ll have to go back and get more and more injections. Your body will then have to adapt and compensate for more and more frozen muscles and underperforming nerves. Moreover, this does nothing to help you recover the function you have lost.. We, dystonia patients, deserve better than this defeatist approach.
Well, if any of this sounds relevant to you, perhaps you have good reason to be hopeful again. Because just in the same way that your brain learned a dysfunctional pattern that is causing you pain, it can learn a new, functional one that can help you recover function and get your life back. This is exactly how I got my life back after more than twelve years battling dystonia. My mission is now to help as many people as possible do the same.
In a nutshell, here is how this works: (1) we identify the parts of the nervous system that your brain is avoiding, and which ones are being overused; (2) we use gentle sensory stimulation techniques to help the brain reconnect to those underused neural pathways; and (3) we stimulate neuroplasticity, your brain’s ability to form new connections and learn, in order to help you replace the dysfunctional patterns with new, functional ones.
If this seems interesting to you, I invite you to read the information on the website in depth and take advantage of a free thirty-minute consultation in which we can discuss how this can be beneficial to you. In the meantime, thanks for watching. I wish you peace and good health.