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  2. Cricopharyngeal spasm - Wikipedia

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    The pain causes dry deglutition and dry deglutition adds to the pain, triggering a vicious circle. The spams start after dry deglutition, after the meals or randomly during the day. They can start (and stop) brutally. Or softly, by the feeling that a small pill is stuck, frictions around it, then the impression that a ball is stuck.

  3. Meige's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Spasm means "uncontrolled muscle contraction". The term blepharospasm ['blef-a-ro-spaz-m] can be applied to any abnormal blinking or eyelid tic or twitch resulting from any cause, ranging from dry eyes to Tourette's syndrome to tardive dyskinesia. The blepharospasm referred to here is officially called benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) to ...

  4. Spasmodic dysphonia - Wikipedia

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    The open position of the vocal folds also allows air to escape from the lungs during speech. As a result, the voices of these individuals often sound weak, quiet, and breathy or whispery. As with adductor spasmodic dysphonia, the spasms are often absent during activities such as laughing or singing, but singers can experience a loss of range or ...

  5. Celine Dion shares how stiff-person syndrome affects her ...

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    The spasms, which can occur all over her body, she said, can be so intense they can break ribs, and have. Dion first revealed her diagnosis in December 2022 in an emotional video posted to Instagram.

  6. Kimberly Williams-Paisley Opens Up About 'Terrifying' 2 ... - AOL

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    The actress was diagnosed with muscle tension dysphonia, meaning “the muscles in my neck were tensing up to help my vocal cords hit each other," Williams-Paisley says. Step one was to “get my ...

  7. Celine Dion Says Singing With Stiff Person Syndrome Is Like ...

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    Part of this, Dion explained, is spasms that can be “abdominal, can be in the spine, can be in the ribs.” “It feels like if I point my feet, it will stay in [that position],” Dion said.

  8. Laryngospasm - Wikipedia

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    Laryngospasm is characterized by involuntary spasms of the laryngeal muscles. It is associated with difficulty or inability to breathe or speak, retractions, a feeling of suffocation, which may be followed by hypoxia-induced loss of consciousness. [2] It may be followed by paroxysmal coughing and in partial laryngospasms, a stridor may be heard ...

  9. Dystonia - Wikipedia

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    muscles of the neck: Causes the head to rotate to one side, to pull down towards the chest, or back, or a combination of these postures. Blepharospasm: muscles around the eyes: The patient experiences rapid blinking of the eyes or even their forced closure causing functional blindness. Oculogyric crisis: muscles of eyes and head