Dystonia and Peripheral Nerve Surgery in the Cervical Area

Cervical dystonia is the most common form of focal dystonia (Dashtipour et al., 2007). It is characterized by involuntary movement of the neck resulting in abnormal neck posture (Brin & Benabou, 1999; Dent, 2002). Cervicalgia and headache sometimes occur in patients suffering from the disease (Albanese, 2005; Brashear, 2004, Schim, 2006). A critical long-term sequelae of this kind of movement disorder is premature cervical spinal degenerative disease (Chawda et al., 2000) which possibly progresses to cervical spondylotic myelopathy (Hagenah et al., 2001; Jameson et al., 2010; Konrad et al., 2004; Krauss et al., 2002; Spitz et al., 2006; Tonomura et al., 2007; Waterston et al., 1989).