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 ou...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Manju, Chawla, H.M., Ochaney, Madhu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1984
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965962
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description 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 factors responsible for degree of improvement and the duration of treatment are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30122592011-10-02 A BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO THE TREATMENT OF WRITER'S CRAMP Mehta, Manju Chawla, H.M. Ochaney, Madhu Indian J Psychiatry Original Article 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 factors responsible for degree of improvement and the duration of treatment are discussed. Medknow Publications 1984 /pmc/articles/PMC3012259/ /pubmed/21965962 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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