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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Combined with Action Observation and Electromyographic Biofeedback Training in a Patient with Writer’s Cramp

We present a 47-year-old right-handed woman with a 15-year history of writer’s cramp who was provided with six sessions of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with observation of writing actions performed by a healthy subject and electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback train...

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Autores principales: Okada, Yohei, Shibamoto, Chiharu, Osumi, Yukari, Asano, Chihiro, Takeuchi, Riho, Nabeshima, Sachio, Morioka, Shu, Shomoto, Koji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Movement Disorder Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5990908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29860789
http://dx.doi.org/10.14802/jmd.18007
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Sumario:We present a 47-year-old right-handed woman with a 15-year history of writer’s cramp who was provided with six sessions of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with observation of writing actions performed by a healthy subject and electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback training to decrease EMG activities in her right forehand muscles while writing for 30 min for 4 weeks. She showed improvement in dystonic posture and writing speed after the intervention. The writing movement and writing speed scores on a writer’s cramp rating scale decreased, along with writing time. Our findings demonstrated that cathodal tDCS combined with action observation and EMG biofeedback training might improve dystonic writing movements in a patient with writer’s cramp.