Patient Stories
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Increasingly, essential tremor patients are turning to a noninvasive and painless new treatment—focused ultrasound—that has the potential to eliminate their trembling. For several years, Columbia neurosurgeon Gordon Baltuch, MD, PhD, who specializes in the surgical treatment of movement disorders, has been one of a few surgeons in the United States experienced in the technique.
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If you are going to have a stroke, you could hardly plan it any better than to be in a room three floors down from an endovascular neurosurgeon like Dr. Sean Lavine–but that is exactly what happened to Michael Walker.
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In the late afternoon of a Friday in June, retired teacher’s aid, Janice C. Silver was resting comfortably in her hospital bed in the Cardiac Unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
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Janet’s problems began slowly. She stumbled into a car once. Another time she lost her balance on a subway grate.
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Meet Cynthia, Dr. McKhann and Dr. Ford’s essential tremor patient who received deep brain stimulation.
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Parkinson disease is a progressive disorder. That means it’s a disease that usually begins with mild symptoms—a slight tremor, or a little trouble with balance—but can progress over time to more serious problems with motion, walking and even speech impairment.
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With the 2018 Winter Olympics underway in South Korea, we thought, what better time to put Josephine Pucci's story front and center once again.
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Madison Wells is a bright and energetic young woman who takes nothing for granted.
