Treatment of Writer's Cramp : a Follow up Study

Botulinum toxin in writer's cramp: objective response evaluation in 31 patients.

OBJECTIVES To quantify the treatment effect of local botulinum toxin injections in writer's cramp a newly developed rating scale of writing performance and a computer assisted analysis of writing speed were used in 31 patients undergoing botulinum toxin therapy. METHODS Baseline data of the writer's cramp rating scale (WCRS, see appendix) and computer based writing speed analysis were compare...

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

Transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of focal hand dystonia.

The treatment of writer's cramp, a task-specific focal hand dystonia, needs new approaches. A deficiency of inhibition in the motor cortex might cause writer's cramp. Transcranial direct current stimulation modulates cortical excitability and may provide a therapeutic alternative. In this randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled study, we investigated the efficacy of cathodal stimulation of th...

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 ...