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    This document describes the Barry Albright Dystonia Scale, which is used to assess dystonia in the eyes, mouth, neck, trunk, and extremities. For each body area, it provides a scale of 0 to 4 to rate the severity of dystonia from absent to severe. A rating of 0 indicates an absence of dystonia, while higher numbers represent increasing levels of dystonia based on the frequency and impact on functioning. The scale provides clinicians with a standardized way to evaluate how much dystonia affects different parts of the body and a patient's daily activities.

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    This document describes the Barry Albright Dystonia Scale, which is used to assess dystonia in the eyes, mouth, neck, trunk, and extremities. For each body area, it provides a scale of 0 to 4 to rate the severity of dystonia from absent to severe. A rating of 0 indicates an absence of dystonia, while higher numbers represent increasing levels of dystonia based on the frequency and impact on functioning. The scale provides clinicians with a standardized way to evaluate how much dystonia affects different parts of the body and a patient's daily activities.

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    This document describes the Barry Albright Dystonia Scale, which is used to assess dystonia in the eyes, mouth, neck, trunk, and extremities. For each body area, it provides a scale of 0 to 4 to rate the severity of dystonia from absent to severe. A rating of 0 indicates an absence of dystonia, while higher numbers represent increasing levels of dystonia based on the frequency and impact on functioning. The scale provides clinicians with a standardized way to evaluate how much dystonia affects different parts of the body and a patient's daily activities.

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    This document describes the Barry Albright Dystonia Scale, which is used to assess dystonia in the eyes, mouth, neck, trunk, and extremities. For each body area, it provides a scale of 0 to 4 to rate the severity of dystonia from absent to severe. A rating of 0 indicates an absence of dystonia, while higher numbers represent increasing levels of dystonia based on the frequency and impact on functioning. The scale provides clinicians with a standardized way to evaluate how much dystonia affects different parts of the body and a patient's daily activities.

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    The document describes the Barry Albright Dystonia Scale which is used to assess and rate the severity of dystonia in different body areas including eyes, mouth, neck, trunk, upper extremities, and lower extremities.

    Dystonia in each body area is assessed based on the presence and severity of signs like prolonged eyelid spasms, grimacing, neck pulling, trunk pulling etc. The severity is rated on a scale of 0 to 4 with 0 being absence and 4 being most severe.

    The body areas assessed using the scale include eyes, mouth, neck, trunk, upper extremities (left and right) and lower extremities (left and right).

    BARRY ALBRIGHT DYSTONIA SCALE

    Eyes: Signs of dystonia of the eyes include: Prolonged eyelid spasms and/or forced eye
    deviations
    1 Absence of eye dystonia
    1. Slight. Dystonia less than 10% of the time
    2. Mild. Frequent blinking without prolonged spasms of eye closure and/or eye
    movements less than 50% of the time
    3. Moderate. Prolonged spasms of eyelid closure, but eyes open most of the time
    4. Severe. Prolonged Spasms of eyelid closure, with eyes closed at least 30% of the time

    Mouth: Signs of dystonia of mouth include: Grimacing, clenched or deviated jaw, forced
    open mouth, and/or forceful tongue thrusting
    0. Absence of mouth dystonia
    1. Slight. Dystonia less than 10% of the time and does not interfere with speech or feeding
    2. Mild. Dystonia less than 50% of the time and does not interfere with speech or feeding
    3. Moderate. Dystonia more than 50% of the time, or dystonia that interferes with speech or
    feeding
    4. Severe. Dystonia more than 50% of the time or dystonia that prevents speech or feeding

    Neck: Signs of dystonia of the neck include: Pulling of the neck into any plane of motion:
    Extension, flexion, lateral flexion, or rotation
    0. Absence of neck dystonia
    1. Slight. Pulling less than 10% of the time and does not interfere with lying, sitting, standing
    or walking
    2. Mild. Pulling less than 50% of the time and does not interfere with lying, sitting, standing,
    or walking
    3. Moderate. Pulling more than 50% of the time or dystonia that interferes with lying, sitting,
    standing, or walking
    4. Severe. Pulling more than 50% of the time or dystonia that prevents sitting in standard
    wheelchair, standing or, walking (i e, requires more than standard head rest for seating)
    Trunk:
    0. Absence of trunk dystonia
    1. Slight. Pulling less than 10% of the time and does not interfere with lying, sitting, standing,
    or walking
    2. Mild. Pulling less than 50% of the time and does not interfere with lying, sitting, standing,
    or walking
    3. Moderate. Pulling more than 50% of the time or dystonia that interferes with lying, sitting,
    standing, or walking
    4. Severe. Pulling more than 50% of the time or dystonia that prevents sitting in standard
    wheelchair, standing or walking

    Upper Extremities (Left/Right):


    1. Absence of upper extremity dystonia
    2. Slight. Dystonia less than 10% of the time and does not interfere with normal positioning
    or functional activities
    2. Mild. Dystonia less than 50% of the time and does not interfere with normal positioning or
    functional activities
    3. Moderate. Dystonia more than 50% of the time, or dystonia that interferes with normal
    positioning or functional activities
    4. Severe. Dystonia more than 50% of the time, or dystonia that prevents normal positioning
    or upper extremity function; i e, arms restrained in wheelchair to prevent injury

    Lower Extremities (Left/Right):


    1. Absence of lower extremity dystonia
    2. Slight. Dystonia less than 10% of the time and does not interfere with normal
    positioning or functional activities
    3. Mild. Dystonia less than 50% of the time and does not interfere with normal
    positioning or functional activities
    4. Moderate. Dystonia more than 50% of the time, or dystonia that interferes with
    normal positioning or lower extremity weight bearing or function
    5. Severe. Dystonia more than 50% of the time, or dystonia that prevents normal
    positioning or lower extremity weight bearing or function
    Source: Adapted from Barry M, VanSearingen J, Albright AL. Reliability and
    responsiveness of the Barry-Albright-Dystonia Scale. Dev Med Child Neurol.
    1999;41(6):404-411.

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