Blepharospasm describes a condition where a person experiences an involuntary spasm of the muscles surrounding the eyelid. “Blepharo” refers to the eyelids, while “spasm” describes twitching of the ...

Blepharospasm is the medical name for a twitching eyelid. The name comes from the words “blepharal,” which means relating to the eyelid, and “spasm,” which is an involuntary muscle contraction.

An eye twitch is an eye muscle or eyelid spasm or movement that you can't control. Eye twitching can be common and is often not a cause for concern. However, there are some conditions that cause eye ...

Eye twitching or Blepharospasm, can last for a few hour or days and disappear spontaneously but sometimes it can persist and become a chronic problem and requires treatment. The term Blepharospasm has ...

COURTESY OF DR. RICHARD HESSE, OSHNER CLINIC. Blepharospasm and facial dystonia have been present since at least the 16th century when Pieter Breughel painted the man in Figure 1, but any useful ...

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As an educator living with blepharospasm, a rare genetic condition causing involuntary blinking and eye twitching, I face physical and emotional challenges. One of my most difficult experiences was ...

A retrospective noncomparative interventional case series of all patients who attended a specialised tertiary referral clinic between January 2000 and January 2003. At the start of treatment, patients ...

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Simple eye twitching that lasts for a few hours or a day or two does not require any testing but needs to be differentiated from similar conditions. Even for Chronic or essential blepharospasm there ...

Benign essential blepharospasm (BEB), a form of focal dystonia, is a disorder of involuntary spasms involving the eyelid protractor muscles. First reported in Western medical literature in 1857, BEB ...