is the first hospital in our area to offer a non-invasive option to patients with tremor-predominant Parkinson’s disease and essential tremors.
“I tell people, it’s sort of like when you go out in the sun, you’re not getting burned out there, you know, it’s you feel heat. But if you take a magnifying glass, you can focus the rays down to a point, and you can burn like a piece of paper,” neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Horowitz said.“The risk of permanent problems happening from the treatment is probably somewhere on the order of less than 10%. If the tremor comes back, they can have it treated,” Dr. Horowitz said.
Dr. Horowitz also says that right now, the treatment is just approved for individuals who have a central tremor involving their upper extremities.