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Stiff-person syndrome (SPS), also known as stiff-man syndrome, [1] is a rare neurological disorder of unclear cause characterized by progressive muscular rigidity and stiffness. The stiffness primarily affects the truncal muscles and is characterised by spasms , resulting in postural deformities.
Like many autoimmune diseases, SPS exists on a spectrum and, as a result, symptoms can look quite different in different people, Dr. Scott Newsome, head of the Johns Hopkins Stiff Person Syndrome ...
Céline Dion is speaking out about stiff person syndrome (SPS), a diagnosis she first revealed nearly two years ago. SPS is a rare autoimmune neurological disease that affects muscles and ...
Céline Dion's public announcement that she has a neurological disease is shining a spotlight on the rare condition known as stiff-person syndrome. In a taped video message shared to her Facebook ...
Stiff-person syndrome, aka Moersch-Woltman syndrome, is a neurological disorder that can cause symptoms such as stiffening in the muscles of the trunk, along with stiffness and rigidity in the ...
After a series of symptoms that ranged from mild to worrisome, I learned that I have stiff person syndrome, a neurological condition that affects 1 in a million people, mostly women.
Stiff person syndrome is very rare, with only one or two people in a million affected, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, noted. It affects twice as many women as men, according to the ...
An Ohio woman with stiff-person syndrome is opening up about her life after Celine Dion revealed she was diagnosed with the rare disorder. Living with stiff-person syndrome: ‘It feels like I’m ...