Correlation between kinesia system assessments and clinical tremor scores in patients with essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1938-1943

  Mostile, Giovanni ^a,b   Giuffrida, Joseph P ^c   Adam, Octavian R ^a   Davidson, Anthony ^a   Jankovic, Joseph ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c Cleveland Medical Devices Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical rating scale; Essential tremor; Kinesia; Motion transducers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EQUIPMENT; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; THE ESSENTIAL TREMOR RATING ASSESSMENT SCALE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77956813735     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23201     Document Type: Article

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