Movement Disorder Treatments

We were one of the first hospitals to implement Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to treat tremor disorders.

DBS is like a pacemaker for your brain. We place thin wires into your brain. A generator in your chest sends pulses through these electrodes. The electrodes normalize your brain activity. This treatment helps improve your symptoms.

Emory Healthcare is one of only a select number of locations in the Southeastern U.S. to offer focused ultrasound for tremors.

Focused ultrasound uses sound waves to target a small area of the brain responsible for tremors. The sound waves generate heat to remove or destroy the cells causing the tremor without harming nearby tissue.

Most patients experience immediate, often dramatic, tremor improvement with focused ultrasound.

Emory is also one of only a few hospitals in the nation that offers Gamma Knife® radiotherapy.

Our Gamma Knife® machine is the latest in Gamma Knife® therapy. It combines the best of everything we have learned about radiosurgery in one machine. We are the first in Georgia and only one of seven in the nation with this technology.

This procedure treats problem areas in the brain with radiation to reduce tremors. It protects the healthy surrounding tissue. There is no knife used or incision made.

This treatment option can help you avoid surgery. Because it's safe and doesn't involve incisions, the procedure is outpatient.

To treat Parkinson’s disease, surgeons insert a needle-like probe into your brain. They send radiofrequency waves through the probe. These waves kill the damaged brain tissue causing abnormal impulses.