| Nearly one million people in the United States suffer from Parkinson’s Disease. People with Parkinson’s Disease experience muscle tremors, rigidity of movement, fatigue and difficulties maintaining balance. Medications can help alleviate these symptoms by replenishing lost stores of chemicals in the brain.
While there is not yet a cure for Parkinson’s Disease, UT Southwestern’s physicians and surgeons are at the forefront of providing our patients with the medication and surgical treatments needed to help our patients more effectively manage their symptoms, and eventually find a cure.
New surgical procedures, which may even replace medication for the management of some Parkinson’s Disease symptoms, are available to patients at UT Southwestern. The procedure helps improve stiffness, tremors and weakness by implanting tiny electrical devices in the brain that are controlled by a pacemaker-like device. Surgeons at UT Southwestern who perform this procedure report that it works much like medication does, but can be more precisely controlled for better results.
Approximately 37,000 people in the United States have been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, which causes severe muscle weakness. Patients with the condition have trouble walking long distances, holding up their arms or breathing. Sometimes, facial muscles and muscles that control swallowing are affected.
Researchers at UT Southwestern have published new findings about the underlying genetic causes of myasthenia gravis, which gives our physicians another avenue to explore for the treatment of this debilitating condition.
In addition to Parkinson’s Disease and myasthenia gravis, some of the other conditions we treat include:
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