Golfers' cramp: Clinical characteristics and evidence against it being an anxiety disorder

Movement Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 326-332

  Sachdev, Perminder ^a  

^a PRINCE HENRY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Dystonia; Golf; Neurosis; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE SPASM; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SELF REPORT; SPORT; TREMOR;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GOLF; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026808904     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870070405     Document Type: Article

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