Sensitive training through body awareness to improve the writing of patients with writer’s cramp [PDF]
Neurology International, 2013 The aim of this article is to evaluate if body awareness is important to improve the writing ability before using the splints. Twelve patients with writer’s cramp were evaluated by a specialist in movement disorders.
Flavia Quadros Boisson Waissman +4 more
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Motor re-training and immobilisation in the treatment of writer’s cramp: a clinical and fMRI study
Aktualności Neurologiczne, 2018 Objectives: The aim of the paper was to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of the physiotherapeutic program in writer’s cramp, (2) compare the brain activity while writing in patients with writer’s cramp and in healthy controls, (3) compare the brain ...
Jarosław Oborzyński +5 more
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Basal Ganglia A-V Malformation and Writer’s Cramp
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1998 A 12-year-old girl presenting with writer’s cramp as the first manifestation of basal ganglia arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is reported from the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tokyo, Japan.
J Gordon Millichap
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Lasting Effects of Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Writer’s Cramp: A Case Report [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 The treatment of writer’s cramp (W’sC) is essentially based on the use of botulinum toxin. However, additional treatments are sometime required to prolong the effects of the toxin, compensate for its progressive loss of efficacy in some subjects, and re ...
Antonino Naro +4 more
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Abnormalities of Eye–Hand Coordination in Patients with Writer's Cramp: Possible Role of the Cerebellum [PDF]
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2017 Background: Writer’s cramp (WC) is one of the commonly observed focal dystonias. The pathophysiology of WC has not been fully understood. The role of the cerebellum has been increasingly recognized in the pathogenesis of dystonia.
Ketan Jhunjhunwala +6 more
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Dystonia and Writer’s Cramp Triggered by Exercise
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1997 An 11-year-old girl with a gait disturbance and foot dystonia, especially after exertion at the end of the day, and handwriting difficulty with cramps after a short school exercise, was evaluated at the Neuropaediatric Unit, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
J Gordon Millichap
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The role of the inferior parietal lobule in writer's cramp. [PDF]
Brain, 2020 Humans have a distinguishing ability for fine motor control that is subserved by a highly evolved cortico-motor neuronal network. The acquisition of a particular motor skill involves a long series of practice movements, trial and error, adjustment and ...
Merchant SHI +10 more
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Effect of Botulinum Toxin on Sensori–Motor Integration in Movement Disorders: A Scoping Review [PDF]
ToxinsBackground: The primary effect of Botulinum toxin (BoNT) is to cause weakness in the injected muscles by inhibiting the release of acetyl choline from presynaptic nerve terminals.
Animesh Das, Mandar Jog
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Functional Neural Networks in Writer's Cramp as Determined by Graph-Theoretical Analysis
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Dystonia, a debilitating neurological movement disorder, is characterized by involuntary muscle contractions and develops from a complex pathophysiology.
Jana Schill +9 more
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Functional writer's cramp as psychogenic focal dystonia
Неврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика, 2022 We present a description of a functional writer's cramp case. The disease manifested as pain and tension in the right hand when writing; thus, we suspected kinesigenic dystonia in the form of writer's cramp. However, the motor pattern and the presence of
V. A. Tolmacheva +4 more
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