About a decade ago, Joan Riggs, a 64-year-old from Lemoyne, started to have shaky hands. At first, it was an annoyance.

After 25 years of essential tremor, Joyce Clifton regained steady hands thanks to focused ultrasound at University of Utah Health. The incisionless treatment restored her ability to write, bake, and ...

CHICAGO — Magnetic-resonance (MR)-guided ultrasound thalamotomy in the treatment of essential tremor shows significant benefit in reducing upper-limb tremor and improving functionality on several ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In a hospital room at Oregon Health and Science University, Rick Cranston rubbed his hand back and forth nervously across his newly shaven head. “He can pull it off! What do ...

Essential tremor (ET) is a brain condition that causes uncontrollable shaking of the hands, head, and voice. In some cases, it can also cause your legs and trunk to shake. Also called benign essential ...

Essential tremor is one of the most common movement disorders, yet it often is mistaken for other neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. Affecting an estimated 7 to 10 million Americans, ...

It’s estimated that five percent of adults over the age of forty have an essential tremor, but there is a new treatment in the state that is really making a difference. “I didn’t know at that time how ...

Katharine Hepburn had it. So did playwright Eugene O'Neill and Sen. Robert Byrd. Essential tremor is a condition that causes involuntary shaking. While it usually develops in middle age, it can start ...

Essential tremor is a nervous system disorder, an involuntary shaking or twitching that makes it difficult to shave, button a shirt, or hold a cup of coffee. For some, medication helps stop the ...

On the primary outcome, 31% of head tremor patients in the botulinum toxin group improved by at least 2 points on the Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGI) scale at 18 weeks, compared with 9% in ...