[Post-traumatic focal fixed dystonia of the shoulder: a distinctive syndrome with speculative mechanisms?].
BACKGROUND
Whether post-traumatic focal fixed dystonia has a physiological or psychologically-mediated mechanism is discussed.


METHODS
We report the case of an active 22-year-old soldier with shoulder-fixed dystonia, eight months after a fall with minor right-acromioclavicular sprain.


CONCLUSIONS
Psychiatric examination and search of complex regional pain syndrome, radicular or accessory nerve damage, and genetic predisposition to dystonia are necessary for selecting a difficult treatment in these patients.
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Service de neurologie, hôpital d'instruction des armées-Desgenettes, 108, boulevard Pinel, 69275 Lyon cedex 03, France. drouetalain@yahoo.fr
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D000058:Accidental Falls; D004421:Dystonia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D012785:Shoulder Joint; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013577:Syndrome; D055815:Young Adult