Hey what's going on guys? Welcome to episode 44 of the Physician

assistant boards.com podcast. Today we're going to be talking about

essential tremor. So let's get right into the different or the disorder of essential tremor and what is tremor exactly?

Well tremor is rhythmic and oscillatory movement of a body part that's it it's just

the body part moving That's it. It's just a body part moving back and forth and what happens is you're having

contractions of antagonistic muscles. Now the tremor can occur in a few different positions, right? We can have resting tremor, we can

have postural tremor and we can have tremor with intention. Now the resting tremor

occurs when a patient is sitting down or the body part specifically

we're speaking about is you know in a resting position to work they're not moving, they are not up against gravity, it's

somebody is holding for example the arm or they're sitting down and their arms are

by their side and they're not moving. That's resting. Postural or action. They actually

combine these two terms here and postural actually means if you're holding the body part against gravity.

So for example, if you try lifting up the patient's arm or have the patient lift their arm in front of them,

that is postural because they are holding their arms up against gravity.

Now with postural there's also action tremor.

Action tremor means you're actually moving your arm, as you're moving your arm, you have

tremors as well.

As you're moving, you know, whatever, your leg, a certain body part, as soon as it's moving

and you start to have Tremmer, is action tremor and we're going to

classify or clump those two together so if we have resting and we have postural and

action and the last one is with intense right intention tremor now intention tremor

actually worsens with action the differences with postural or with the action tremor

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