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  2. Stiff-person syndrome - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. What is stiff-person syndrome? Celine Dion sings live for the ...

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    Stiff-person syndrome — often called SPS — is a rare autoimmune disorder, meaning that infection-fighting cells in the body mistakenly attack healthy tissues.

  4. Celine Dion details life with stiff-person syndrome ahead of ...

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    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 ...

  5. Inside Celine Dion's Battle With Stiff Person Syndrome: What ...

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    According to the Mayo Clinic, Stiff Person Syndrome is "a rare disorder of motor function characterized by involuntary stiffness of axial muscles and superimposed painful muscle spasms, which are ...

  6. Celine Dion's Documentary About Stiff Person Syndrome ... - AOL

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    Stiff person syndrome, which occurs in about one in 1 million people, is characterized by progressive muscle rigidity which leads to impaired mobility, muscle spasms, postural deformities and ...

  7. Celine Dion Diagnosed With Stiff Person Syndrome: What to ...

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    Celine Dion, who on Thursday announced she's battling Stiff Person Syndrome, has been diagnosed with an incurable neurological disease so extremely rare that, according to the famed Cleveland ...

  8. Edinboro woman with stiff person syndrome now in remission ...

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    Allen-Kulyk, like the famous singer, has been diagnosed with stiff person syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease that causes progressive muscle rigidity and spasms. ... Everything at Old Navy is ...

  9. Adult-onset Still's disease - Wikipedia

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    Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a form of Still's disease, a rare systemic autoinflammatory disease characterized by the classic triad of fevers, joint pain, and a distinctive salmon-colored bumpy rash. The disease is considered a diagnosis of exclusion. [1] Levels of the iron-binding protein ferritin may be extremely elevated with this ...