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15486996

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-3-28
pubmed:abstractText
Focal hand dystonia may arise as a result of aberrant plasticity from excessive repetitive use. Improvement might be possible with appropriate motor training. Focusing on trying to decrease abnormal overflow of movement to fingers not involved in a task, we developed a motor training program for individualized finger movements. Ten patients with writer's cramp participated in the motor training program. Evaluation was done with the Fahn dystonia scale, kinematic analysis of handwriting, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and electroencephalography (EEG). Clinical improvement of dystonia was significant using the Fahn dystonia scale, and 6 patients reported an improvement in writing. The handwriting analysis showed a trend for improvement after training in simple exercises. There were no changes in cortical excitability measured by TMS and EEG. Whereas this method of motor training for 4 weeks led to mild subjective improvement and some improvement in handwriting, it is not sufficient to reverse motor cortex abnormalities measured by TMS and EEG.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0885-3185
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
2004 Movement Disorder Society.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
335-41
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Motor training as treatment in focal hand dystonia.
pubmed:affiliation
Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1428, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article