Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Combined with Action Observation and Electromyographic Biofeedback Training in a Patient with Writer's Cramp
Journal of Movement Disorders
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: 82-86, 2018.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
We present a 47-year-old right-handed woman with a 15-year history of writer's cramp who was provided with six sessions of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with observation of writing actions performed by a healthy subject and electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback training to decrease EMG activities in her right forehand muscles while writing for 30 min for 4 weeks. She showed improvement in dystonic posture and writing speed after the intervention. The writing movement and writing speed scores on a writer's cramp rating scale decreased, along with writing time. Our findings demonstrated that cathodal tDCS combined with action observation and EMG biofeedback training might improve dystonic writing movements in a patient with writer's cramp.
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Main subject:
Posture
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Writing
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Biofeedback, Psychology
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Dystonic Disorders
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Healthy Volunteers
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
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Muscles
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of Movement Disorders
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
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