A method useful for evaluating abnormal body tremors wherein a subject is positioned
onto a support surface and one or more components of the load exerted by the subject
upon the support surface are measured. Simultaneously, the cardiac activity of
the subject is also recorded and the time interval between each consecutive heartbeat
is computed. The measured load output is modified to normalize the weight of the
subject and then plotted against a modified frequency wherein each time interval
between heartbeats represent a unit of time and a selected equal number of force
measurement samples are interpolated between each heartbeat. The frequency spectrum
analysis of such a modified power spectrum graph yields information about body
tremor which can be compared to a prior analysis of the same subject or to the
same analysis of a standard. The standard is created using the identical method
upon, preferably, a sufficient number of subjects known to be free of abnormal
body tremor to yield an average measure useful for comparison and diagnostic purposes.