Overview

Imagine if you couldn't walk normally or get up from a chair, or if parts of your body moved when you didn't want them to. If you have a movement disorder, you experience these kinds of impaired movements. Involuntary movements, called dyskinesia, are a common symptom of many movement disorders. Tremors are a type of dyskinesia.

Movement disorders may be caused by injuries, autoimmune diseases, infections, heredity and certain medicines. Nerve and brain diseases cause many movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, dystonia, and essential tremor.

Treatment varies by disorder. Medicine can resolve some disorders, but many of these conditions have no known cure. We utilize a multidisciplinary approach to conduct comprehensive evaluations with each patient to find the optimal medication and/or surgical approach for managing the disorder. We are pleased to bring the technique of deep brain stimulation to control abnormal movement disorders to this area.