{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Cisneros E"],"funding":["National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke","National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences","NCATS NIH HHS","NINDS NIH HHS"],"pagination":["117205"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7728456"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["419"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objectives</h4>To investigate hypothesized sources of error when quantifying the effect of the sensory trick in cervical dystonia (CD) with the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS-2), test strategies to mitigate them, and provide guidance for future research on the sensory trick.<h4>Methods</h4>Previous analyses suggested the sensory trick (or \"alleviating maneuver\", AM) item be removed from the TWSTRS-2 because of its poor clinimetric properties. We hypothesized three sources of clinimetric weakness for rating the AM: 1) whether patients were given sufficient time to demonstrate their AM; 2) whether patients' CD was sufficiently severe for detecting AM efficacy; and 3) whether raters were inadvertently rating the item in reverse of scale instructions. We tested "],"journal":["Journal of the neurological sciences"],"pubmed_title":["It's tricky: Rating alleviating maneuvers in cervical dystonia."],"pmcid":["PMC7728456"],"funding_grant_id":["U54 NS065701","U54 NS116025","U54 TR001456"],"pubmed_authors":["Fox SH","Jankovic J","Chen Q","Cisneros E","Adler CH","Severt LL","Stover NP","Comella CL","Barbano RL","Peterson DA","Factor SA","Stebbins GT","Zhang Z","Perlmutter JS","Vu JP","Benadof CN","Goetz CG","Reich SG","Berman BD","Jinnah HA","Rodriguez R"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"It's tricky: Rating alleviating maneuvers in cervical dystonia.","description":"<h4>Objectives</h4>To investigate hypothesized sources of error when quantifying the effect of the sensory trick in cervical dystonia (CD) with the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS-2), test strategies to mitigate them, and provide guidance for future research on the sensory trick.<h4>Methods</h4>Previous analyses suggested the sensory trick (or \"alleviating maneuver\", AM) item be removed from the TWSTRS-2 because of its poor clinimetric properties. We hypothesized three sources of clinimetric weakness for rating the AM: 1) whether patients were given sufficient time to demonstrate their AM; 2) whether patients' CD was sufficiently severe for detecting AM efficacy; and 3) whether raters were inadvertently rating the item in reverse of scale instructions. We tested ","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 Dec","modification":"2025-04-04T13:11:29.653Z","creation":"2022-02-11T14:31:33.355Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7728456","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33160248"],"doi":["10.1016/j.jns.2020.117205"]}}