Writer's cramp--a rational approach to treatment?

A Behavioural Approach to the Treatment of Writer's Cramp

In (perhaps) one of the largest series, treatment of 30 cases of writer's cramp by behaviour therapy alone, has been studied over a period of 5 years. The therapy techniques used were (i) relaxation therapy and retraining (ii) relaxation therapy, retraining and systematic desenetization. The outcome of both the techniques are very encouraging and show definite improvement in all cases. Various ...

Treatment of Writer's Cramp : a Follow up Study

The paper describes the usefulness of a treatment method for writer's cramp. Three cases of writer's cramp are described and in all the three, the response to treatment has been good after treatment and on follow up.

گزارش یک مورد سندرم کرامپ نویسندگی همراه با صرع میوکلونیک و وسواس عملی

Introduction: The writer's cramp syndrome is a kind of local dystonia which appears in the hands due to uncontrollable muscular spasms, making a hard and tiring job of writing for patients. Case Report: The present study investigates a 55 year old married male, a bank officer, who has been suffering from myoclonic epilepsy and compulsion since the age of 17, and a few years later developed t...

Treatment of Writer's Cramp

Writing Orthotic Device for the Management of Writer’s Cramp

BACKGROUND Oral therapies and chemodenervation procedures are often unrewarding in the treatment of focal, task-specific hand disorders such as writer's cramp or primary writing tremor (PWT). METHODS A portable writing orthotic device (WOD) was evaluated on 15 consecutively recruited writer's cramp and PWT subjects. We measured overall impairment at baseline and after 2 weeks of at-home use w...