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From Mary Kugler, R.N., for About.com

Dystonia and Botox injections

Sunday August 24, 2003
Most people know Botox as a vanity treatment for facial lines, but the medication was originally developed as an orphan drug to treat movement disorders characterized by involuntary muscle contractions, called dystonia.

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