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Tilt Testing with Combined Lower Body Negative Pressure: a "Gold Standard" for Measuring Orthostatic Tolerance
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Teaching video neuroimages: orthostatic tremor: the helicopter sign
Vincent S DeOrchis1, Howard L Geyer, Steven Herskovitz
1Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
Neurology
|April 3, 2013
Abstract:
A 63-year-old man presented with 4 years of orthostatic tremor while standing, resolving after sitting or leaning against a wall. There was marked subjective unsteadiness, but no falls. Surface EMG in arms and legs demonstrated a 14- to 16-Hz synchronous tremor in antagonist muscles (video on the Neurology Web site at www.neurology.org.).
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