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Postural Tremor

Aka: Postural Tremor
  1. See Also
    1. Action Tremor
  2. Description: Subtype of Action Tremor
    1. Patient attempts to maintain Posture against gravity
    2. Example: Tremor holding arms out in front of body
    3. Moderate to high frequency: 5-9 Hz
    4. Low amplitude
  3. Causes
    1. Physiologic Tremor
    2. Essential Tremor
    3. Alcohol Withdrawal
    4. Drug Withdrawal
    5. Metabolic disturbances
    6. Drug Induced Tremor
    7. Psychogenic Tremor
    8. Cerebellar Tremor
  4. Labs
    1. Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
  5. Management
    1. Beta Blockers
    2. Primidone (Mysoline)
    3. Acetazolamide (Diamox)
    4. Clonazepam (Klonopin)
    5. Botulinum toxin
    6. Gabapentin (Neurontin)
    7. Deep stimulation
    8. Thalamotomy

Static Tremor (C0234378)

Concepts Sign or Symptom (T184)
MSH D014202
SnomedCT 56610005
English Tremor, static, Static Tremors, Tremor, Static, Tremors, Static, postural tremor, static tremors, postural tremors, static tremor, Static tremor, Postural tremor, Static tremor (finding), Static Tremor
French Tremblement statique
Spanish temblor estático (hallazgo), temblor estático, temblor postural
Sources
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)


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