Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1922495 Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2007 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

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<0.0001p<0.0001). The tremor magnitude values showed significant correlation with standard methods of clinical assessment (p<0.01p<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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