Journal of Cognitive Neuropsychology

Effect of Fine Motor Activities to Improve Activities of Daily Living on Upper Extremity Essential Tremor in Geriatric Population

World Congress on Neurorehabilitation
July 05-06 2021 | Webinar

Dr. K. Naresh Babu

Lecturer of Occupational Therapy, NIEPMD, Chennai

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Cog Neu

Abstract

Back Ground of the Study: Patients with Essential Tremor have been found to exhibit upper extremity Tremor as more obvious. This upper extremity tremor significantly affects an individual ability to perform everyday task, fulfill former roles and maintain personal-social relationship. This study is to determine whether occupational therapy intervention of fine motor activity protocol based on manual dexterity and coordination activities would effectively improve the activities of daily living among essential tremor in geriatric population. Objective: The aim of the study was to find out the “Effect of fine Motor Activities of Daily Living on Upper Extremity Essential Tremor in Geriatric Population”. Study Design: Pre & Post-test experimental design with convenient sampling. Method: A total of 30 patients suffering from essential tremor were selected and randomly allocated to the experimental and controls till the number of 15 subjects were reached in each group matched for age gender and chronic of illness. Assessments were done to measure the upper extremity tremor using Glass Scale, Archimedes Spiral Drawing and functional independence was measured using Tremor Activities of Daily Living Scale (TADLS). A structured occupational therapy intervention of fine motor protocol based on manual dexterity and coordination activities was tailored and implemented. Result: After implementation patient who received occupational therapy Intervention showed significant improvement in the area of fine motor activity and functional independence. Discussion: Occupational Therapy strategies depends primarily in systematic gradation and training of task parameters and functional adaptation which has yielded an improvement in the underlying upper extremity tremor and provided much benefit for community living. The findings say that improvement of daily living functions was related to improvement of functional independence and reduce the level of upper extremity tremor after intervention. Conclusion: There is a significant improvement in upper extremity essential tremor in geriatric population who receive fine motor activity protocol based on manual dexterity and coordination activities of occupational therapy intervention.