Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 10 , Pages 1357-1364 , October 2006

Functional Mobility and Postural Control in Essential Tremor

Presented in part to the Society for Neuroscience, November 12–16, 2005, Washington, DC.

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 Supported by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities of Ontario (graduate scholarship), a Carmichael Scholarship, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant no. MOP67044).No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the authors or upon any organization with which the authors are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(06)00841-0

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.07.255

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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