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Last December, music icon Celine Dion revealed she had been diagnosed with the rare and progressive condition stiff person syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes the body to attack its own nerve cells.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Patients tend to lose control over their bodies due to the disorder, which currently has no cure and is so rare that research is particularly slow.<\/p>\n
Now, Celine\u2019s older sister, Claudette, shared a heartbreaking update with fans after the singer was forced to cancel her last tour as the disease took hold.<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old told 7 Jours that the French Canadian singer is \u201cworking hard\u201d to keep the condition at bay but \u201cdoesn\u2019t have control over her muscles\u201d anymore.<\/p>\n
She assured fans that the Hollywood star wants \u201cto return to the stage\u201d but admitted it\u2019s not yet clear in what capacity this will actually be possible.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong>C\u00e9line Dion makes first public appearance in years and fans say she looks \u2018incredible\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Stiff person syndrome, or SPS, can leave patients struggling to walk or talk due to the muscle stiffness and spasms that it causes, with some sufferers living a statue-like existence during the progressive disorder\u2019s final stages.<\/p>\n It\u2019s believed to only affect one in a million people with women making up the majority of diagnosed patients.<\/p>\n Claudette pointed out that the disorder could have disastrous consequences both for Celine\u2019s career and life as she pointed out that it targets muscles in the body, adding: \u201cThe vocal cords are muscles, and the heart is also a muscle.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite pulling the \u201ctop researchers in the field\u201d to help, Celine has seen little improvement in her health over the past year since making her diagnosis public over Instagram.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n However, fans are clearly far from giving up on the All by Myself hitmaker as Claudette revealed her family\u2019s charity, Foundation Maman Dion, has been inundated with support, love and prayers for her sister.<\/p>\n Claudette shared: \u201cShe gets so many messages, presents and blessed crucifixes.\u201d<\/p>\n Rumors earlier this year claimed the progressive disease had seen the Grammy winner becoming wheelchair bound, but her sister was quick to shut down the false claims.<\/p>\n Claudette highlighted to Showbizz.net at the time that while the condition was taking a devastating toll on Celine\u2019s body, she still has \u201cthe joy of living\u201d and the mental strength to \u201cget through this\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Last December, music icon Celine Dion revealed she had been diagnosed with the rare and progressive condition stiff person syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes the body to attack its own nerve cells. Patients tend to lose control over their bodies due to the disorder, which currently has no cure and is so rare …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}