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Focused ultrasound for essential tremor - Wellness University webinar

Date and time

Location

Online

Price

Free

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Agenda

  1. 6:00鈥痯m - 7:00鈥痯m

    Improving quality of life for those with essential tremor

    Please join Dr. Justin D. Hilliard, a BOB体育 neurosurgeon, for a webinar discussing an incisionless, outpatient treatment for patients diagnosed with a movement disorder known as essential tremor. If you or someone you know has essential tremor, register to learn more about focused ultrasound and how it can help. Focused ultrasound, or FUS, is an FDA-approved, incisionless treatment option performed on an outpatient basis for patients with essential tremor. During the procedure, ultrasound waves are directed through the skull to target a region of the brain called the thalamus. The thalamus is a center within the brain that processes motor information. For those with essential tremor, the thalamus is receiving poor quality information from other regions of the brain, resulting in tremor. Focused ultrasound creates an ablation within the thalamus, disrupting the abnormal flow of information, and thereby significantly reducing tremor. Patients experience instantaneous relief and return home the same day of the procedure.

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