San Diego patient has focused ultrasound for tremors [Video]

For more than four decades, Bonnie lived with these increasing challenges and many more from the shaking caused by essential tremor, a movement disorder she was diagnosed with in her 30s. In addition to everyday tasks, Bonnie also gave up some of her favorite hobbies, such as sewing and crocheting.

For Bonnie, medications to help control her essential tremor had not been an option since 2017, because they couldn’t be taken with other crucial prescriptions she had been prescribed for arterial fibrillation (AFib), an irregular heartbeat. Last year, however, a bright ray of hope came her way when her doctor told her about MR-guided focused ultrasound, now being used at Sharp Grossmont Hospital to treat people with essential tremor and Parkinson’s.

Focused ultrasound is a revolutionary, one-time outpatient treatment that uses ultrasound waves guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to target and treat the areas of the brain causing a person’s tremor. Focused ultrasound treats one side of the brain at a time. After a year, patients may have the other side treated if necessary.

Learn more about focused ultrasound: https://www.sharp.com/services/neurology/focused-ultrasound

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