The Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale is Age-Dependent in Healthy Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale is a universally applied instrument for the quantitative assessment of dystonia in both children and adults. However, immature movements by healthy young children may also show "dystonic characteristics" as a consequence of physiologically incomplete brain maturation. This could implicate that Burke-Fahn-Marsden scale scores are confounded by pediatric age.

Objective

In healthy young children, we aimed to determine whether physiologically immature movements and postures can induce an age-related effect on Burke-Fahn-Marsden movement and disability scale scores.

Methods

Nine assessors specializied in movement disorders (3 adult neurologists, 3 pediatric neurologists, and 3 MD/PhD students) independently scored the

SUBMITTER: Kuiper MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353340 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature