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Division Clinical Criteria

United Kingdom

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Any person with at least two of the following three:

  • Painful muscular contractions primarily of the masseter and neck muscles leading to facial spasms known as trismus and ‘risus sardonicus’

  • Painful muscular contractions of trunk muscles

  • Generalised spasms, frequently position of opisthotonus