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. 1984 Jan-Mar;26(1):82–87.

A BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO THE TREATMENT OF WRITER'S CRAMP

Manju Mehta 1,, HM Chawla 2, Madhu Ochaney 3
PMCID: PMC3012259  PMID: 21965962

SUMMARY

In (perhaps) one of the largest series, treatment of 30 cases of writer's cramp by behaviour therapy alone, has been studied over a period of 5 years. The therapy techniques used were (i) relaxation therapy and retraining (ii) relaxation therapy, retraining and systematic desenetization. The outcome of both the techniques are very encouraging and show definite improvement in all cases. Various factors responsible for degree of improvement and the duration of treatment are discussed.

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