Multi-center improvement in screening for dystonia in young people with cerebral palsy.

Background And Objectives: Dystonia is a common, debilitating, and often treatment refractory motor symptom of cerebral palsy (CP), affecting 70-80% of this population based on research assessments. However, routine clinical evaluation for dystonia in CP has failed to match these expected numbers. Addressing this diagnostic gap is a medical imperative because the presence of dystonia rules in or out certain treatments for motor symptoms in CP.