My friend "Tom" tells me he has something called essential tremor. It creates a host of challenges in everyday life. In ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 76 years old, and I have had an essential tremor for over six years. It has progressively gotten ...

Sharp Grossmont hospital launched a new treatment to reduce tremors caused by Parkinson's disease. A once "embarrassing" ...

Many of us will have seen the various active assistive devices which have appeared over the last few years to help people with a hand tremor. Probably the best known was a fork with a set of ...

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Its symptoms, such as hand tremors, stiffness, slow movement and muddled thinking, significantly impact daily activities. These symptoms can be managed with medications; the most essential being ...

Gordon’s own father, a renowned brain surgeon, has nothing but contempt for his son, whose essential hand tremor prevented him from following his father’s career track. Cora believes that ...

By the time someone shows signs of the disease such as a hand tremor or muscle stiffness, they have already lost anywhere from 60 percent to 80 percent of those nerve cells in the part of the ...

They exhibit behaviors that seem odd – flapping hands like they are excited, or twirling their fingers; rocking back and forth; collecting odds and ends; staring at nothing or seeming to look ...