Assessment of ability/disability in patients treated with chronic thalamic stimulation for tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 78-83

  Hariz, Gun Marie ^a   Bergenheim, A Tommy ^a   Hariz, Marwan I ^a   Lindberg, Margareta ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Assessment of Motor and Process Skills; Chronic thalamic stimulation; Essential tremor; Occupational therapy; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COORDINATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDURANCE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROSURGERY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PARKINSON DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALAMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR;

EID: 0031974945     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870130117     Document Type: Article

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