<![CDATA[Objectives: Tremor patients can face many difficulties and challenges in performing their daily lifeactivities. The impact of tremor on patients’ lives has various dimensions, captured by questionnaires fortremor severity, disability, handicap, and quality of life. Quality of life is substantially decreased mainly formental domains, indicating a major impact of psychosocial aspects. The purpose of this study is to reducehand tremors with the help of gyro based hand glove to improve the activities of daily living of the patient.Methodology: 24 subjects (M:16; F:8) suffering from hand tremors were selected on the basis of inclusioncriteria. Name, age and gender of the individuals participating the research was documented. ADL and IADLscore of all the individuals was calculated both pre application of the glove and post application of glove.The scale used for assessing the score of ADL and IADL was ‘Katz index of independence in activities ofdaily living scale’ and ‘Lawton-Brody instrumental assisted activities of daily living scale’ respectively.Result: From this study we get to know that there is increase in the score of ADL by 17.8%. that there isincrease in the score of ADL by 38.63%.Conclusion: On the basis of the result of the study, it was concluded that subjects suffering with handtremors had significant increase in the score of the activities of daily living as well as the score of theirInstrumental activities of daily living.]]>
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