Table 3.

Mean velocity, pen pressure and disfluency for controls in a single series of writing tasks and for patients with writer’s cramp in four series of the four writing tasks (before and after continuous TBS and before and after sham TBS)

Velocity		Mean (in mm/s)	SD	95% CI lower bound	95% CI upper bound
Controls	Circles 20 mm	217.6	23.0	10.6	424.6
	Circles 5 mm	63.2	5.2	16.6	109.8
	Loops 20 mm cont.	272.9	4.2	235.3	310.6
	Loops 20 mm discont.	245.2	5.3	197.6	292.9
cTBS (before)	Circles 20 mm	127.7	63.7	78.7	176.6
	Circles 5 mm	46.9	19.7	31.8	62.1
	Loops 20 mm cont.	147.1	56.9	103.4	190.8
	Loops 20 mm discont.	141.3	49.6	103.2	179.4
cTBS (after)	Circles 20 mm	137.5	66.3	86.6	188.5
	Circles 5 mm	46.6	14.9	35.2	58.0
	Loops 20 mm cont.	165.3	53.3	104.5	183.8
	Loops 20 mm discont.	153.7	55.7	92.4	164.5
shamTBS (before)	Circles 20 mm	111.6	50.3	72.9	150.3
	Circles 5 mm	44.4	20.0	29.0	59.8
	Loops 20 mm cont.	144.1	51.6	104.5	183.8
	Loops 20 mm discont.	128.5	46.9	92.4	164.5
shamTBS (after)	Circles 20 mm	120.0	60.3	73.7	166.3
	Circles 5 mm	47.3	19.3	32.5	62.2
	Loops 20 mm cont.	143.5	45.2	108.8	178.2
	Loops 20 mm discont.	141.2	50.6	102.4	180.1

Pen pressure		Mean (N)	SD	95% CI Lower bound	95% CI Upper bound
Controls	Circles 20 mm	1.405	0.343	−1.683	4.493
	Circles 5 mm	0.915	0.037	0.584	1.247
	Loops 20 mm cont.	1.583	0.073	0.930	2.237
	Loops 20 mm discont.	1.532	0.045	1.130	1.935
cTBS (before)	Circles 20 mm	2.477	1.219	1.540	3.414
	Circles 5 mm	2.419	1.173	1.518	3.322
	Loops 20 mm cont.	2.619	1.113	1.764	3.475
	Loops 20 mm discont.	2.535	1.181	1.626	3.442
cTBS (after)	Circles 20 mm	2.327	1.068	1.506	3.147
	Circles 5 mm	2.228	1.070	1.405	3.051
	Loops 20 mm cont.	2.638	1.179	1.731	3.545
	Loops 20 mm discont.	2.519	1.147	1.638	3.401
shamTBS (before)	Circles 20 mm	2.757	1.094	1.916	3.597
	Circles 5 mm	2.398	1.095	1.555	3.239
	Loops 20 mm cont.	2.582	0.836	1.939	3.225
	Loops 20 mm discont.	2.765	0.867	2.099	3.432
shamTBS (after)	Circles 20 mm	2.326	0.851	1.673	2.980
	Circles 5 mm	2.211	9.961	1.472	2.950
	Loops 20 mm cont.	2.501	0.924	1.790	3.210
	Loops 20 mm discont.	2.570	0.902	1.877	3.263

Disfluency		Mean number of peaks per stroke	SD	95% CI Lower bound	95% CI Upper bound
Controls	Circles 20 mm	0.987	0.006	0.939	1.034
	Circles 5 mm	0.979	0.030	0.709	1.249
	Loops 20 mm cont.	0.985	0.004	0.948	1.022
	Loops 20 mm discont.	0.959	0.006	0.910	1.008
cTBS (before)	Circles 20 mm	1.471	1.167	0.574	2.368
	Circles 5 mm	1.215	0.487	0.841	1.589
	Loops 20 mm cont.	1.044	0.078	0.984	1.103
	Loops 20 mm discont.	1.032	0.056	0.989	1.074
cTBS (after)	Circles 20 mm	1.309	0.565	0.875	1.743
	Circles 5 mm	1.090	0.190	0.945	1.236
	Loops 20 mm cont.	1.015	0.055	0.973	1.057
	Loops 20 mm discont.	1.003	0.049	0.966	1.041
shamTBS (before)	Circles 20 mm	1.514	0.789	0.908	2.120
	Circles 5 mm	1.211	0.282	0.994	1.428
	Loops 20 mm cont.	1.045	0.087	0.979	1.112
	Loops 20 mm discont.	1.055	0.076	0.997	1.113
shamTBS (after)	Circles 20 mm	1.329	0.594	0.872	1.785
	Circles 5 mm	1.053	0.160	0.931	1.176
	Loops 20 mm cont.	1.027	0.077	0.968	1.086
	Loops 20 mm discont.	1.036	2.500	0.996	1.076

cTBS = continuous TBS; SD = standard deviation; CI = confidence interval; cont. = continuous; discont. = discontinuous.