It started six years ago, with a simple bike accident.  

“I was 14 at the time,” says Spokane Valley resident Megan Sargent. ”And about a week after that, my neck just snapped to the side.”

With her head torqued and locked on the right side, her doctor sent her home with some muscle relaxers. Assuming it was an isolated incident, Sargent and her family didn’t think much more about it.

But signs of dystonia, a neurological movement disorder, had shown up years before. 

You can read the rest of this terrific, informative article on living with dystonia simply by clicking on this link.  It was originally published in The Spokesman-Review, a Spokane, Washington paper.