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Podcast: Pain Science Podcast
Episode: Episode 189 | Focal Dystonia: Treatment and Neuroscience with Nancy Byl, PT, MPH, PhD, FAPTA
Description: In this episode, we're discussing the neuroscience and treatment of focal dystonia. My expert guest is Dr. Nancy Byl. Dr. Byl has been a practicing physical therapist for many years. She assumed leadership as Department Chair and participated in academic development, teaching, and administration at the University of California, San Francisco's Graduate Program in Physical Therapy. As a clinician and researcher, she's an expert in the cause and treatment of focal dystonia. Working with collaborators in neuroscience, she designed an animal model to study the etiology of focal hand dystonia. She created a paradigm shift in the understanding of...