Tremor Evaluation
When seeking evidence of postural tremor, the physician asks the patient to extend the arms and perform the finger-to-nose or finger-to-finger ...
Evaluation of Patients With Tremor - Practical Neurology
Ask the patient to reposition her or his hands with pinkies down and thumbs up, as both parkinsonian and Holmes tremors are often triggered by this posture. Ask ...
Tremor: Sorting Through the Differential Diagnosis - AAFP
The diagnosis of tremor is based on clinical information obtained from the history and physical examination. ... Tremor in children is potentially ...
Revisiting the assessment of tremor: clinical review - PMC
This article outlines an approach to upper-limb tremor presentations in adult patients, developing a previously proposed three cardinal question method for ...
Approach to a tremor patient - PMC
Most tremors of clinical significance have a frequency range of 4–12 Hz.[1] The frequency range of rest tremor is 3–6 Hz and that of postural tremor is 4–12 Hz, ...
Neuropathic tremor · Dystonic tremor · FUNCTIONAL TREMORS · EVALUATION ... Clinical characteristics — Clinical classification of tremor is based ...
Evaluation of tremor - Differential diagnosis of symptoms
Uncommon · Multiple system atrophy · Progressive supranuclear palsy · Cortical basal degeneration · Toxin-induced tremor · Postencephalitic ...
Tremor - Merck Manual Professional Edition
The examiner should note whether the tremor changes during mental distraction tasks (eg, serial subtraction of 7 from 100). The quality of the voice should be ...
Essential Tremor Diagnosis | Penn Medicine
Essential tremor is diagnosed by a neurologist. During an evaluation, your doctor will talk to you about your symptoms and perform a neurological examination.
The Essential Tremor Rating Assessment Scale
The Essential Tremor Rating Assessment Scale was developed by the Tremor Research Group (www.tremorresearchgroup.org) to quantify essential ...
Tremor Syndromes: An Updated Review - Frontiers
Electrophysiological assessment comparing several characteristics of PWT and dystonic tremor (DT) provided evidence for marked similarity of these two ...
Patient education: Tremor (Beyond the Basics) - UpToDate
... tremor: Treatment and prognosis · Etiology, clinical features, and diagnostic evaluation of dystonia · Overview of tremor · Patient education ...
Upper limb intention tremor assessment
This review examines the current state of upper limb tremor assessment technology and discusses potential directions to further develop new and existing ...
Symposium 2: Movement Disorders SY2.1. Evaluation of Tremor
A detailed tremor history and neurological examination are usually enough for the clinical evaluation of tremor syndromes. However, the clinical presentations ...
Tremor: Clinical Phenomenology and Assessment Techniques
In this review, we discuss the various methods of quantitative tremor analysis and the classification and pathogenesis of tremor.
Longitudinal evaluation of patients with isolated head tremor
Our longitudinal study demonstrated that patients with isolated head tremor may develop cervical dystonia over time.
Essential tremor - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
To evaluate the tremor itself, your health care provider may ask you to: ... A health care provider who still is not sure if a tremor is essential ...
Wearable Devices for Assessment of Tremor - Frontiers
New, non-invasive, portable, or even wearable devices have been recently proposed as complementary tools to EMG for a better characterization of tremors.
Diagnosis and Management of Tremor | JAMA Internal Medicine
... evaluation. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1994;57987- 989Google Scholar ... evaluate botulinum toxin type A in essential hand tremor. Mov Disord. 1996 ...
The Clinical Evaluation of Parkinson's Tremor - IOS Press
Here, we will outline how we investigate Parkinson's tremor in the clinic, and review the available clinical tests that can be used to constrain this ...