According to NORD, the National Organisation for Rare Disorders, there are five types of Stiff Person Syndrome:
1) Classic SPS
2) Focal SPS
3) Jerking SPS
4) Progressive Encephalomyelitis with Rigidity and Myoclonus (PERM)
5) Paraneoplastic-Related SPS
Click on the links below to take you to various SPS pages from the internet. They are strictly for information only and do not represent advice or recommendations by the UK and Ireland SPS Support Group and Charity. If you have more links you believe would be of interest to the community, please submit for consideration to: admin@smssupportgroup.co.uk
Available or Suggested Treatments
NICE is the UK's National Health Service (NHS) National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. This link takes you direct to NICE's website
This US government site brings together SPS and SPS-related links across the internet. The usagov link (LEFT) goes directly to the site section about SPS and is pre-loaded with a search for anything Stiff Person Syndrome. In the first 30 pages, there are 600 randomly arranged links, not all of which are SPS related/connected. Many, but not all, links are the same listed here on our website. However, refined searches can be carried out to reveal specific information/results.
Cannabis Provides Symptom Relief in Patient with Treatment-Resistant SPS (2019)
Clinicopathologic Features of Amphiphysin-IgG Autoimmune Neuropathy (first reported in stiff-person syndrome with breast cancer) (2019)
Anti-glutamate Dehydrogenase Antibody Positive Cerebellar Ataxia and Stiff Person Syndrome Responding to Dual Treatment with Steroids and Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Case Presentation and Literature Review (2019)
PERM: Glycine receptor autoantibodies disrupt inhibitory neurotransmission (2019)
Video: How a Baclofen Pump Works (2014)
Anaesthesia recommendations for SPS patients (2014)
What is plasmapheresis? (2016)
HSCT for SPS (2019). Go to time stamp 42mins 44 secs
Video: Intrathecal pump implantation (2014)
New thinking on SPS or syndromes (2019)
Anaesthesia and SPS (2017)
Plasmapheresis: What to expect (2017)
Understanding Immunoglobulin therapy (2017)
Immunological basis for treatment of SPS (2010)
Childhood SPS Improved with rituximab (2012)
SPS treatment using combined spinal epidural anaesthesia (2010)
Finding the right medication
Further childhood SPS Improved with rituximab (2012)
Rigidity and spasms in SPS (2006)