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Methods: Relaxation tests (10 eye openings, tongue extension, and palm openings), handgrip strength, and the nine-hole peg test were conducted on 139 healthy individuals and 31 patients with DM1. Results: We observed non-significant declines in handgrip strength and relaxation tests with age (p &lt; 0.05). Significant differences were found between controls (n:139) and patients with DM1 (n = 31) in all tests (p &lt; 0.05). Sex differences were noted in the healthy population: men (n:68\/139) had stronger handgrip (mean of men 42.45 \u00b1 1.15 vs. women 24.3 \u00b1 0.9) and slower relaxation tests (mean of eye openings in men 3.6 \u00b1 0.2 vs. in women 4.2 \u00b1 0.2, tongue extensions in men 3.7 \u00b1 0.2 vs. in women 4.2 \u00b1 0.2, palm openings in men 4 \u00b1 0.2 vs. in women 4.9 \u00b1 0.2 However, these differences were not present among patients with DM1. Discussion: Normal values for relaxation tests across different age groups were established. These results might be useful for further clinical investigations. Our study supports the usage of averages of healthy population instead of age groups of relaxation tests and their clinical relevance in the evaluation of patients with myotonia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/neurolint17080118","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,1]],"date-time":"2025-08-01T06:37:47Z","timestamp":1754030267000},"page":"118","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Measuring Myotonia: Normative Values and Comparison with Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Andrea","family":"Sipos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, 7623 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mil\u00e1n","family":"\u00c1rvai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, 7623 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"D\u00e1vid","family":"Varga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, 7623 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Brigitta","family":"Ruszin-Perecz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, 7623 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"J\u00f3zsef","family":"Janszky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, 7623 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4012-4932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"N\u00e1ndor","family":"Hajd\u00fa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Psychology, E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, 1053 Budapest, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6525-0754","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Endre","family":"P\u00e1l","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, 7623 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"259","DOI":"10.1159\/000369343","article-title":"Prevalence of muscular dystrophies: A systematic literature review","volume":"43","author":"Theadom","year":"2014","journal-title":"Neuroepidemiology"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"154","article-title":"Clinical aspects, molecular pathomechanisms and management of myotonic dystrophies","volume":"32","author":"Meola","year":"2013","journal-title":"Acta Myol."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"705","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ncl.2014.04.011","article-title":"Myotonic dystrophy","volume":"32","author":"Thornton","year":"2014","journal-title":"Neurol. 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