Tremor magnitude: a single index to assess writing and drawing in essential tremor
Language English Country England, Great Britain Media print-electronic
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PubMed
16793316
DOI
10.1016/j.parkreldis.2006.04.010
PII: S1353-8020(06)00093-9
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- MeSH
- Adult MeSH
- Essential Tremor diagnosis physiopathology MeSH
- Middle Aged MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Statistics, Nonparametric MeSH
- Writing * MeSH
- Psychomotor Performance physiology MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Case-Control Studies MeSH
- Severity of Illness Index * MeSH
- Check Tag
- Adult MeSH
- Middle Aged MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Male MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Female MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
Hand tremor often causes disability in patients with essential tremor (ET). Aim of the study was to investigate whether tremor magnitude, a new single quantitative score obtained from digital tablet recordings of writing and drawing, is able to adequately reflect disability in ET patients. Mean tremor magnitude values showed significant difference between 14 ET patients and 14 healthy age matched controls (p<0.0001). The tremor magnitude values showed significant correlation with standard methods of clinical assessment (p<0.01). We present tremor magnitude as an index that reflects disability resulting from tremor and can help to evaluate ET.
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