| Balance functions and related factors in patients with essential tremor |
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| EN KeyWords: essential tremor balance gait fall confidence |
| Fund Project:浙江省2019年医药卫生学科平台项目（2019DZ021）；浙江省医药卫生科技计划学科平台青年人才项目（2018RC004） |
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| Objective: To explore the characteristics of gait and balance difficulty in essential tremor (ET). Methods: Totally 80 ET patients and 80 age-gender-matched healthy volunteers were included. The clinical data and gait and balance symptoms were obtained. These patients and the other 80 controls were evaluated using the Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC-6), Berg Balance Scale (BBS). All participants were asked to indicate how many falls and how many near misses they had in the past year. Results: The patients with ET showed lower balance ability according to the BBS (P<0.001) and lower balance confidence according to the ABC-6 scale (P<0.01) than controls. The number of falls reported in the past year was more in ET in controls (P<0.001). The number of near-falls reported in the past year was more than in controls (P<0.01). Conclusion: Gait and balance impairment is common in ET patients. Future research with objective sleep measurements is needed in ET patients as well as interventions to improve balance funcontion with the aim of preventing balance ability decline. |
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