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Chapter 15 - The Use of Botulinum Toxin in Tremors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2023

By
Shivam Om Mittal  and
Joseph Jankovic
Edited by
Daniel Truong ,
Dirk Dressler ,
Mark Hallett ,
Christopher Zachary  and
Mayank Pathak
Daniel Truong
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Dirk Dressler
Affiliation:
Hannover Medical School
Mark Hallett
Affiliation:
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Christopher Zachary
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Mayank Pathak
Affiliation:
Truong Neuroscience Institute
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Summary

Tremor is one of the common movement disorders encountered by neurologists in clinical practice. Based on the history and phenomenology, the tremor can be classified commonly as Parkinson’s disease tremor, essential tremor , essential tremor plus, dystonic tremor, task-specific tremor and other tremor syndromes. This chapter describes the role of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) in several tremor conditions and provides some practical clinical pearls related to BoNT injection techniques. Specific muscles involved and the dose range of BoNT are tabulated.

Keywords

Parkinson’s tremoressential tremordystonic tremorhand tremorhead tremorvoice tremorbotulinum neurotoxinBoNT
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Manual of Botulinum Toxin Therapy , pp. 113 - 119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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