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Moving foot dystonia in a seamstress

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  1. Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 23 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-872, Republic of Korea

    Dokyung Lee, Jin San Lee & Tae-Beom Ahn

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Continual patterned movements of her right foot are seen. The movements consist of dorsiflexion and plantar flexion of ankle with out-of-phase toe movements. They are not distracted by other activities such as waiving hands, counting numbers and talking. They disappear with transient toe movements when she lies. 1 (MP4 33774 kb)

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Lee, D., Lee, J.S. & Ahn, TB. Moving foot dystonia in a seamstress. Neurol Sci 36, 1495–1496 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-015-2109-1

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