The sensory trick (geste antagoniste) – a slight touch in the area of face or head – is a bizarre clinical feature in cervical dystonia patients leading to attenuation of the disease symptoms. Even if well known, the pathophysiology and clinical significance of it still remain shrouded. In a semiquantitative, questionnaire based research, we have so far examined 81 patients (58 women, 23 men, mean age 57.9 years) with idiopathic cervical dystonia. While 77% of subjects were able to correct the abnormal posture with force – pushing the head to the normal position; only about 41% of subjects showed the classic geste antagoniste where just a slight touch sufficed – with slight difference between men and women – 30%, resp. 44%, however, statistically not significant ( p = 0.24). Out of these patients, 76% were able to use both hands and 42% both sides of the head (at a patient-specific area) to provoke the trick. However, when another person (the researcher) touched the very head area, only in 27% of patients it lead to partial or full alleviation of symptoms, showing there is a distinct motor pattern that needs to be maintained to induce the gesta antagoniste. Only 33% of the patients were able to provoke the trick using a foreign object (e.g. a pen), so the geste antagoniste seems to be not only a simple sensory feature requiring just touching of the area, no matter the object providing the touch. Surprisingly, about 21% of patients showed at least a partial disease symptoms improvement when imagining doing the trick themselves and about 82% of patients were not able to fully provoke the trick when busy with some cognitively demanding activity (e.g. counting), allowing us to hypothesize that there is also a psychological dimension of the geste antagoniste requiring the subject to focus on it. These data show that geste antagoniste is a complex feature requiring distinctive motor, sensory and cognitive input combination. It definitely deserves more attention as there is a promise of possibly effective therapeutic use of sensorimotor stimulation in cervical dystonia patients leading to at least partial symptoms alleviation of this painful and stigmatizing disease.