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Does the Severity of Arm Tremor in Essential Tremor Correlate with Impaired Balance? Cover

Does the Severity of Arm Tremor in Essential Tremor Correlate with Impaired Balance?

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Volume 16 (2026): Issue 1
By: Elan D. Louis and  Diane Berry  
Open Access
|Feb 2026

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.1146 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
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Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 1, 2025
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Accepted on: Jan 20, 2026
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Published on: Feb 3, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
essential tremor,
clinical,
tandem gait,
balance,
cerebellum

© 2026 Elan D. Louis, Diane Berry, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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