Month: June 2019

When you need to get a job done, you want the best equipment available to accomplish the task as effortlessly and efficiently as possible. Why take more strength and time than you need? But suppose the right gear isn’t available. You’re going to have to use a little creativity and apply some patience, but you’re keep reading

Millions of Americans live with uncontrollable shaking of the hands, head, voice or other part of the body. When “the shakes” are not known to be caused by a disease or exposure to a toxic substance, the condition is called essential tremor (ET) because the tremors appear to exist independently from another state. In humans, keep reading

We hear countless stories about people who had hand tremors since childhood or their teens, but were diagnosed with essential tremor (ET) later in adulthood. We hear fewer stories—but still a substantial number—of people who developed hand tremors between ages 40-60 who were initially misdiagnosed as having Parkinson’s disease; later it turned out to be keep reading

Shaking and quaking of the hands is the most common (and obvious) sign of essential tremor (ET). ET is the most prevalent movement disorder. Although it is considered non-life threatening, ET can gradually worsen to the point of delivering a crushing blow to a person’s control of their hands. Another area affected is the voice, keep reading

Involuntary hand tremors can rob a person’s quality of life. Some tremors stem from an underlying neurological condition such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). More commonly, the source is a movement disorder called essential tremor (ET), a progressive but non-life-threatening condition. Many persons with ET or PD find that stress worsens tremors, but there’s a difference keep reading

Movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) are not yet curable. Thus, the goal of treatment is symptom management. In both PD and ET, the first approach to controlling tremors is generally medication. For PD patients, medication is almost always immediately effective. For persons with ET, however, drugs may prove disappointing keep reading