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Hand orthosis as a writing aid in writer's cramp

✍ Scribed by Nihal Taş; Gülçin Kaymak Karataş; Vesile Sepici

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
1018 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Writer's cramp is a focal, task‐specific dystonia of the hand and wrist. It primarily affects people who do a significant amount of writing, and causes difficulties in writing. We present five cases with writer's cramp who showed improvement in their writing ability with an applied hand orthosis. © 2001 Movement Disorder Society.

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