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Perturbation of precision grip in Friedreich's ataxia and late-onset cerebellar ataxia

✍ Scribed by Dr. Joachim Hermsdöourfer; Karl Wessel; Norbert Mai; Christian Marquardt

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
463 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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Abstract

Perturbations of precision grip were tested in 7 patients with Friedreich's ataxia (FA) and 11 patients with late‐onset cerebellar ataxia (CA). Subjects were instructed to hold a small compressible manipulandum between thumb and index finger and to resist any perturbation of maintained finger position. A sudden increase of load induced a displacement of fingers until this was stopped by subjects' active intervention. The amount of initial displacement emerged as a highly sensitive parameter to differentiate the clinical subgroups: Responses in FA patients were missing or massively delayed, whereas displacements in CA patients were normal or only moderately abnormal. This discrimination of impaired hand function in FA and CA patients has not been possible by using only tasks of isometric grip force control. We concluded that our task relies more on intact sensory afferents, which are known to be impaired in FA, than on cerebellar function. In a second task the stiffness of the maintained grip was determined. On the average, preresponse stiffness was lower in FA patients as compared with CA patients and normal controls. However, stiffness appeared to be an independent parameter that did not influence the amount of displacement in the perturbation task.

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