Upper-Extremity Disability in Essential Tremor

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 661-670

  Héroux, Martin E ^a   Parisi, Sarah L ^a   Larocerie Salgado, Juliana ^a   Norman, Kathleen E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disability evaluation; Essential tremor; Hand; Rehabilitation; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HAND TREMOR; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646113602     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.01.017     Document Type: Article

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