Lluis Barraquer i Roviralta and the origins of torsion dystonia
Idiopathic torsion dystonia has the synonyms of dysbasia lordotica progressiva, dystonia lenticularis, dystonia musculorum deformans, and progressive torsion spasm. Standard references suggest the first description was that of Marcus Walter Schwalbe from Ziehen’s clinic in 1907.1 Hermann Oppenheim2 and Georg Theodor Ziehen3 in 1911 published simultaneous reports and in the same year the Polish neurologists Edward Flatau and Wladyslaw Sterling described the condition. Oppenheim had described four new cases in Jewish children and deserves credit for the term dystonia musculorum deformans and for …
