If your hand routinely shakes when you hold a drink, sign your name or tap a number into your cellphone, you may fear that you’re experiencing signs of Parkinson’s disease. But what you’re more likely ...

The features, causes and management strategies for essential tremor and how nurses can support patients with this common ...

This week we are going to discuss tremors in the individual, particularly hand tremors which are caused by a variety of conditions. Have you ever noticed someone tremoring for no apparent reason? Many ...

A 76-year-old man makes an appointment for an evaluation of shakiness. The patient’s past medical history is notable for hypertension, depression and mild COPD ...

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is one of six locations nationally - and the only one in the Midwest - studying the safety and effectiveness of a promising new technology using ...

Treatment options for essential tremor include medications, exercises, lifestyle changes, and in severe cases, surgical procedures such as deep brain stimulation. Essential tremor is a neurological ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 76 years old, and I have had an essential tremor for over six years. It has progressively gotten stronger, mainly in my hands. I have been reading about an MR-guided focused ...

Among patients with Parkinson disease, a positive history of essential tremor was found to be associated with slower progression of motor and nonmotor symptoms, with no impact observed on survival.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 76 years old, and I have had an essential tremor for over six years. It has progressively gotten stronger, mainly in my hands. I have been reading about an MR-guided focused ...

People with essential tremor (ET) have nearly three times increased risk of developing dementia compared with the general population, new research showed. In a prospective, longitudinal study, ...