. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 18.

Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2014 May 14;85(8):882–884. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2013-307316

Table 1.

Demographics, effectiveness and symptoms severity in patients with effective alleviating manoeuvres who used forceful touch or light touch only (n=138)

	Used forceful touch at any location (n=13)	Used light touch only at any location (n=125)	Test of difference p value
Age (years)	62.9±10.5 (46–83)	59.5±10.6 (29–80)	0.34
Duration of dystonia (years)	18.0±13.0 (0–39)	15.1±11.3 (0–60)	0.44
GDRS (total score)	13.6±10.1 (3–34)	8.6±5.1 (1–37)	0.15
TWSTRS (total score)	17.2±6.8 (7–29)	16.2±5.6 (1–27)	0.58
Gender (%)			0.73
Female	11 (85)	94 (75)
Male	2 (15)	31 (25)
Effectiveness of AM (%)			0.28
Partial	8 (73)	52 (48)
Complete	3 (27)	52 (48)
No effect	0	4 (4)

Partial missing information of the 138 who reported effective alleviating manoeuvres: age, 9 patients; duration of dystonia, 9 patients; GDRS, 11 patients; degree of improvement, 19 patients.

AM, alleviating manoeuvres; GDRS, Global Dystonia Rating Scale; TWSTRS, Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale.