Teaching tape for the motor section of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Scale

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 570-575

  Cornelia, Cynthia L ^a   Stebbins, Glenn T ^b   Goetz, Christopher G ^b   Chmura, Teresa A ^b   Bressman, Susan B ^b   Lang, Anthony E ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Spasmodic torticollis rating scale; Teaching tape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPASMODIC TORTICOLLIS; SYMPTOM; TAPE RECORDER; TEACHING; TREMOR;

DYSTONIA; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NECK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEACHING; TORTICOLLIS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0030825664     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120414     Document Type: Article

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