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== Prognosis == Although essential tremor is often mild, people with severe tremor have difficulty performing many of their routine activities of daily living.<ref name=Bain>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bain PG, Mally J, Gresty M, Findley LJ | title = Assessing the impact of essential tremor on upper limb function | journal = Journal of Neurology | volume = 241 | issue = 1 | pages = 54β61 | date = November 1993 | pmid = 8138823 | doi = 10.1007/bf00870673 | s2cid = 9502687 }}</ref><ref name=Louis>{{cite journal | vauthors = Louis ED, Barnes L, Albert SM, Cote L, Schneier FR, Pullman SL, Yu Q | title = Correlates of functional disability in essential tremor | journal = Movement Disorders | volume = 16 | issue = 5 | pages = 914β920 | date = September 2001 | pmid = 11746622 | doi = 10.1002/mds.1184 | s2cid = 9540572 }}</ref> ET is generally progressive in most cases (sometimes rapidly, sometimes very slowly), and can be disabling in severe cases.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Critchley M | title = Observations on essential (heredofamial) tremor | journal = Brain | volume = 72 | issue = Pt. 2 | pages = 113β139 | date = June 1949 | pmid = 18136705 | doi = 10.1093/brain/72.2.113 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Busenbark KL, Nash J, Nash S, Hubble JP, Koller WC | title = Is essential tremor benign? | journal = Neurology | volume = 41 | issue = 12 | pages = 1982β1983 | date = December 1991 | pmid = 1745359 | doi = 10.1212/wnl.41.12.1982 | s2cid = 41199748 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Louis ED, Ford B, Barnes LF | title = Clinical subtypes of essential tremor | journal = Archives of Neurology | volume = 57 | issue = 8 | pages = 1194β1198 | date = August 2000 | pmid = 10927801 | doi = 10.1001/archneur.57.8.1194 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
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