Disability in essential tremor
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 36 (7), 1001
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.36.7.1001
Abstract
We studied 18 patients with essential tremor for difficulty with handwriting, drinking, eating, fine manipulations, and embarrassment. Propranolol and primidone reduced the amplitude of both postural and kinetic tremor. Handwriting, drinking, and eating were improved with therapy, but fine manipulations and motor performance on tapping and pegboard tests were unaltered. Embarrassment remained unchanged. Essential tremor is not a benign condition; disability can be only partly reversed with drug therapy.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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