Celine Dion announced on the social platform yesterday that she suffers from the rare neurological disease "stiff person syndrome".

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[Health Channel/Comprehensive Report] 54-year-old Canadian Western pop music queen Celine Dion (Celine Dion) announced on social platforms yesterday that she suffers from Stiff person syndrome, a rare neurological disease.

According to the website of the Department of Neurology of National Taiwan University Hospital, Stiff Man Syndrome is a rare disease of the central nervous system. The main symptoms are stiffness and tightness of the trunk and proximal extremities.

Yang Zhichao, the concurrent attending physician of the Department of Neurology of National Taiwan University Hospital, once published an article on the website of the Department of Neurology of National Taiwan University Hospital, mentioning that catalepsy syndrome usually occurs after adulthood, and 60% to 80% of patients will have anti-glutamic acid decarboxylation in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid (enzyme) antibody, this enzyme is required for the synthesis of an inhibitory transmitter substance in the central nervous system, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Excessive activity, followed by rigidity.

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The article pointed out that the most troublesome symptoms of stiff person syndrome patients are that the muscles of the body become stiff and feel as hard as iron. If the limbs also become stiff, walking and activities will be limited.

Because of this rare condition, patients are likely to be treated as being too tense or with general low back pain.

For the treatment of Stiff Man Syndrome, some drugs can improve the stiffness of the trunk and limbs of patients, but based on the mechanism of autoimmune disorders, immunotherapy drugs, plasma exchange, and injection of immunoglobulin preparations can also improve the condition .

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