Table 2 Overview of clinical data of examined WC patients
Biographical Variables | ||
|---|---|---|
Age | [years] | |
Sex | ||
Main Musical Instrument, Instrumental Group | strings, woodwind, none etc. | |
Musical Level | professional, amateur, non-musician | |
Level of Education | secondary modern school, grammar school final exams (comparable to UK A levels), vocational school, university degree | |
Previous Health Conditions | ||
Affected Hand in patients and respective hand in controls | ||
Handedness | ||
Lifetime Cumulative Fine Motor Activity: Handwriting, Keyboard Typing, Instrumental Music, Other, Summed; all: [yrs] | [years] | |
Psychological Questionnaires | ||
State Train Anxiety Inventory: State Anxiety, Trait Anxiety | ||
Arm Dystonia Disability Score | ||
NEO-FFI | ||
Motor Performance Tests | ||
Sub-Test | Measure | Right / Left / Bi-manual |
Aiming | 1) error number 2) error duration [ms] 3) total duration [s] | R, L, BR, BL |
Steadiness | 1) error number 2) duration [s] | R, L, BR, BL |
Line Tracking | 1) error number 2) error duration [ms] | R, L |
Inserting of Long Pins | total duration [s] | R, L, BR, BL |
Inserting of Short Pins | total duration [s] | R, L, BR, BL |
Tapping | 1) number of taps during first half of a 32 s recording 2) number of taps during second half 3) total number of taps | R, L, BR, BL |
Writing Task | ||
Overall Writing Time | [s] | |
Frequency of the Written Trace | [s−1] | |
Mean Frequency of Up- and Downstrokes | [s−1] | |
Mean Axial Pressure on Pen | [N] | |
Writing Speed | [mm/s] | |
Length of Pen on Paper | [mm] | |
Doodling Circles | ||
Minimum Axial Pressure on Pen | [N] | |
Difference of Minimum Axial Pressure while Doodling and Mean Axial Pressure during Writing Task | [N] | |
Grip Force Tasks | ||
Maximum Grip Force (dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Maximum kinematic acceleration (dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Differential Load Force (dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Differential Grip Force (dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Mean Grip Force (dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Difference of mean Grip Force and Slip Force (dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Max Grip Force (non-dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Maximum kinematic acceleration (non-dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Differential Load Force (non-dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Differential Grip Force (non-dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Mean Grip Force (non-dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Difference of mean Grip Force and Slip Force (non-dystonic hand) | [N] | |
Grip force cyclic up-down Task (dystonic hand): min, max, mean and median | [N] | |
Grip force cyclic up-down Task (non-dystonic hand): min, max, mean and median | [N] | |