Journal
MOVEMENT DISORDERS
Volume 25, Issue 12, Pages 1938-1943Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23201
Keywords
essential tremor; clinical rating scale; Kinesia; motion transducers
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Funding
- CleveMed
- Cleveland Medical Device Inc. (CleveMed)
- National Parkinson Foundation (NPF)
- Allergan, Inc.
- Boehringer-Ingelheim, Inc.
- Ceregene, Inc.
- Chelsea Therapeutics
- Helis Foundation
- Huntington's Disease Society of America
- Huntington Study Group
- Impax Pharmaceuticals
- Ipsen Limited
- Lundbeck Inc.
- Medtronic
- Merz Pharmaceuticals
- National Institutes of Health
- National Parkinson's Foundation
- Neurogen
- St. Jude Medical
- Teva
- University of Rochester
- Parkinson's Study Group
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The primary aim of this study was to determine whether scores on The Essential Tremor Rating Assessment Scale (TETRAS) correlate with quantitative assessments using the Kinesia (TM) (CleveMed) system in patients with essential tremor (ET). Patients sequentially evaluated and diagnosed with ET at the Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine were enrolled in the study. The Kinesia portable device was attached to the wrist and subjects were instructed to hold their arms in an outstretched position and then touch their nose while data were wirelessly transmitted to a computer. Subjects were rated on the arm where the system was placed using specific TETRAS items. A linear regression model was constructed for each task using the logarithmic values of both clinical scores and objective motion data parameters to compute a Kinesia score. Twenty subjects underwent complete clinical TETRAS and Kinesia quantitative assessments. TETRAS clinical scores significantly correlated with predicted Kinesia quantitative variables for postural (r = 0.738; P < 0.001) and kinetic (r = 0.57; P = 0.009) tremor. We conclude that the Kinesia system may, therefore, have a utility in quantitative assessments of ET when combined with standard clinical assessment. (C) 2010 Movement Disorder Society
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