Limb Cooling in Essential Tremor

Completed

Conditions studied: Essential Tremor

In brief

Essential Tremor (ET) is characterized by tremors affecting the arms. The investigators will examine the effects of non-pharmacological limb cooling on clinical and physiological characteristics in patients presenting with ET at three different temperatures; and will measure changes in tremor amplitude after cooling of the upper limb.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02067702

Run by

University of Florida

People needed

27

Starts

2014-10-01

Expected to finish

2019-01-14

Last updated by the study team

2019-01-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 95. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age range 18 to 95 years,
• Clinical diagnosis of essential tremor for at least a year,
• A +2 or worse action or kinetic tremor of one or both upper limbs involving at least the forearm and/or hand

You may not qualify if…

• Dermatologic lesions in upper limbs (e.g. skin cancer, eczema, fresh or healing wounds, abrasions, acne, pustules, abscesses, or skin rash),
• Sensory loss in the upper limbs,
• Known history of sensitivity to cold (i.e., cold urticaria),
• Known peripheral vascular disease,
• Raynaud's phenomenon,
• Scleroderma
• Healthy normal controls will be enrolled through advertisements. All controls will be examined to ensure that they are neurologically healthy.
• The exclusion criteria for controls will remain same as those for patient subjects.

Where it is running

• University of Florida, Movement Disorders Center — Gainesville, Florida, United States

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