February 2017 - Neuravive - Sperling Neurosurgery Associates

MRgFUS offers new optimism about essential tremor.

Essential tremor (ET) can be good cause for pessimism. An obstacle that many ET patients run up against is the lack of knowledge on the part of doctors. According to Peter Muller, an ET patient and Executive Director of... keep reading

Two simple techniques can help reduce stress-induced tremors.

Two Ways to Reduce Essential Tremor by Lowering Stress Imagine that you are doing a solo hike on a lovely trail in the north woods. It’s late spring, and the forest is quiet except for birds chirping. You pause for a drink from your water bottle – when from behind you comes the sound of keep reading

Essential tremor is different from Parkinson’s disease and often far less serious

Benign Essential Tremor vs. Parkinson’s Disease: What’s the Difference? No one wishes for a chronic, long-lasting medical condition but some are more dreaded than others – especially if there’s no cure. Diseases that involve neurological deterioration are particularly fearful. They affect the brain and/or nervous system. They include deteriorating conditions like MS, ALS, Huntington’s disease, keep reading

A new noninvasive painless procedure controls essential tremor with no drugs or surgery.

Until recently, surgical treatments such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) or thalamotomy would be offered to control ET once medication fails to do so. In either case, the scalp, skull and brain are physically invaded to administer the treatment. Now, there is a technologic breakthrough called Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Focused Ultrasound, or simply MRgFUS, that is completely noninvasive. keep reading

Resistance training improves dexterity and steadiness for essential tremor.

Resistance Training Helps Manage Essential Tremors Winston Churchill said, “Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.” This is an inspiring metaphor for using resistance to gain new horizons. If you are living with essential tremor (ET), you may feel like your personal horizons are shrinking due to loss of controlled movement and keep reading

Create Your Own Unique Program to Manage Essential Tremor

Your Personal Management Plan for Essential Tremor The Nobel Prize-winning scientist Konrad Lorenz was curious about evolution from childhood onward. He wrote, “In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.” For those who keep reading

Coping with essential tremor is an emotional process

Essential tremor is an emotional journey that starts with the first inkling of uncontrollable movement. It could be something as barely noticeable as a slight shakiness when you lift a glass of water to your lips... keep reading

A new noninvasive painless procedure controls essential tremor with no drugs or surgery

Until recently, surgical treatments such as DBS or thalamotomy would be offered to control ET once medication fails to do so, resulting in the physical invasion of the scalp, skull and brain. Now, there is a technologic breakthrough called MRgFUS that is completely noninvasive. keep reading

Month: February 2017