Muscle loading as a method to isolate the underlying tremor components in essential tremor and Parkinson's disease

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 347-355

  Burne, John A ^a   Blanche, Tim ^b   Morris, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dystonia; Essential tremor; Kinetic tremor; Movement disorder; Parkinson's disease; Postural tremor; Rest tremor; WFFT

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; GRAVITY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; WRIST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 4243054943     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20109     Document Type: Article

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