Imagine a full body Charley horse that stops you in your tracks.
Stiff person syndrome (SPS) is a neurological disease with autoimmune features. Symptoms include muscle spasms, hyper-rigidity, debilitating pain, and chronic anxiety. Muscle spasms can be so violent they can dislocate joints and even break bones.
SPS is labeled as a rare disease. But more people are affected than reported due to misdiagnoses. It takes on average seven years to identify. It is often mistaken as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Fibromyalgia, Psychosomatic Illness, Anxiety, Phobia, and other autoimmune diseases.
Patients are often disabled, wheelchair bound or bed-ridden, unable to work and care for themselves.
Director, Stiff Person Syndrome Center
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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