International singer Celine Dion announced on Thursday that she is postponing the start of her European concert tour because she is suffering from a rare neurological disease called “Stiff Man Syndrome”. Because of this pathology, which affects one to two in a million, the Canadian singer has difficulty walking and using her vocal cords as she would like, she explained on social media. Can this disease be cured? What is causing this? An overview of the current medical knowledge on the problem.
Stiff-man syndrome, also called Moersch and Woltman syndrome, affects adults, men and women equally, according to the scientists who discovered it in 1956. Symptoms, mainly persistent contractions of certain muscles, develop insidiously and fluctuate over years, with peak incidence around age 45. Due to ignorance about this disease…
Source: Le Figaro
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