Live Life Without Tremors
Let the expert specialists at Saint Luke’s help you take control of your tremor.
Parkinson's and Essential Tremor Treatment
Movement disorders that cause tremors, like Parkinson’s and essential tremors, typically progress over time. Saint Luke’s team of fellowship-trained specialists at our Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center combine leading-edge treatments with a multidisciplinary care approach to help patients at every stage.
Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute offers treatments only available to the most advanced neuroscience hospitals in the country – medications, therapies, and surgeries – to treat your symptoms now and as they progress.
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What We Treat
Saint Luke’s treats movement disorders, including:
- Ataxia
- Atypical Parkinsonism
- Chorea
- Dystonias
- Essential tremor
- Gait disorders
- Hemifacial spasm
- Huntington’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease
- Spasticity
- Tics
- Tourette syndrome
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Advanced Treatment Options
While there is no cure for Parkinson’s, essential tremor, or other movement disorders, there are several advanced options including Duopa and deep brain stimulation, for managing your symptoms.
- Asleep Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) – While you’re comfortably asleep under general anesthesia, we’ll place tiny electrodes into specific regions of the brain to send intermittent electrical impulses that interfere with abnormal brain activity after surgery. Patients experience relief from symptoms of movement disorders. Saint Luke’s is among an elite group of hospitals that pioneered asleep DBS surgery. We are one of the nation’s most experienced asleep DBS providers and were the first in Kansas City to perform this surgery.
- Duopa – This device gives a continuous infusion of levodopa for Parkinson’s patients. It allows delivery of the medication directly into the small intestine, helping prevent absorption problems that occur in the stomach. With this device, patients receive a continuous infusion, taking fewer pills throughout the day, and eliminating periods where medications can begin to wear off.
- Botulinum Toxin – Our team offers injection to control abnormal movements in dystonia patients and minimize drooling in Parkinson’s patients.
Hear the story of Mark, who underwent DBS surgery to treat Parkinson's disease and find relief from symptoms.
To learn more about DBS, hear from Dr. Susan Sifers on this groundbreaking technology.
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