Essential tremor is often called benign in the sense that it is not a life-threatening disease. But many who have it consider it anything but benign. The social stigma can lead to depression and ...

Have you ever noticed someone tremoring for no apparent reason? Many times the underlying condition regarding tremors is benign, sometimes it is related to a neurologic condition and sometimes it ...

Two different beta-adrenoreceptor antagonists, atenolol and timolol, were separately compared with a placebo in the suppression of essential tremor. In two-week single-blind placebo-controlled studies ...

What Is an Essential Tremor? Essential tremor is a movement disorder that causes tremors, which are rhythmic, periodic, repetitive motions that you can’t control. It generally affects both your ...

Please, can you offer me any advice? *It sounds like Samuel has benign essential tremor, and this is quite common. Unfortunately the shaking hand will be made worse by anxiety and become more ...

TR came to our teaching clinic at the Farmingdale State College in September 2012 to begin his acupuncture treatment for his hand tremors. The patient and his brothers were diagnosed with familial ...

Tremor is defined as a rhythmic, involuntary, oscillatory movement of body parts. Although constituting nearly 20% of presentations with paediatric movement disorders, tremor in childhood, beginning ...

Essential tremor, previously called “familial tremor” or “benign essential tremor,” is the most common movement disorder and may run in families. When severe, it is certainly not “benign” and can ...