Danish Bhatti: Hello and welcome to the MD podcast. I’m Danish Bhatti. This week’s podcast will focus on Tremor disorders and to talk about it today on our show we have Dr. Diego Torres-Russotto, the director of Movement Disorders Program and movement disorder fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). We’ll talk to him about his inspiration and interest in tremors, how he got interested in orthostatic tremors a very obscure and rare disorder. We’ll also get to …
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Hello and Welcome to the Movement Disorders Podcast. In this series we will be exploring the finer side of things with some of the great minds of Movement Disorders. We will get to hear interesting information on history to understand how we got to be here. We will explore the approach to diagnosis and management, the things that your books would not tell you and most importantly gets tips and tricks that will get you a step ahead in the …
The biggest efforts in Parkinson’s disease have been to figure out ways to slow down this condition and then down the road consider ways that will stop or even potentially reverse the progression of Parkinson’s disease. These efforts have been underway for more than 20 years starting as early as 1980s with attempt with vitamin E in high doses (DATATOP Study) along with selegiline a newly discovered agent at that point. Those efforts failed and vitamin E was found to …
I would divide this into three sections. What would you do before seeing your patients for the injections. What would you do on the injection day and what would you do after the injection day. So let’s look at the first segment. The first thing you should do is develop templates and notes. The documentation is highly important in doing a good injection and also for following up on your response injection and improving your injection results. So you should …
In this article, we will continue where we left off in the last newsletter in terms of research and neuroprotection in Parkinson’s Disease. This article may be read separately but is a continuation of the theme of neuroprotection research in Parkinson’s Disease. Gout, the unwalkable disease, was first identified by Egyptians nearly 2,600 years BC, but the most famous reference is to the description by Hippocrates in the Fifth Century B.C. whose aphorism for Gout still hold true. Over the …
Imagine you are on a road trip through the mountains with your family, (mom, spouse, kids). Imagine that you are driving through this serene national park with lakes and in middle of nature. Now imagine that your car breaks and you have no signals on your phone in the middle of nowhere. Hard to imagine, shouldn’t be. It actually happened to me on a trip in Colorado last summer. Your head gets dizzy with the endless barrage of questions. 1. …
Teaching methods and principles “If you do not change directions, you may end up where you are heading”. _Lao Tzu Teachers need real feedback. Most teachers love to teach but how do we tell them where are they doing a good job where they can improve. when the learning has occurred. 74% faculty are not comfortable in using technology at campus. This number has not changed in last 15 years. If we teach today’s students as if we …
Though it’s best known for smoothing wrinkles, Botox, which is derived from one of the most deadly toxins known to man, has repeatedly stunned the medical community for its seemingly endless applications. Though the drug is approved for nine medical conditions and several cosmetic ones, Allergan, the company that owns Botox, holds close to 800 more patents for potential uses of the drug. Since it was approved nearly 30 years ago, Botox has indeed become a staple of cosmetic enhancement, …
Botulinum toxin (BTX) is a bacterial toxin that could be used as a medicine. Clinical applications of BTX have been expanding over the last 30 years and novel applications reported. Its mechanism of inhibiting acetylcholine release at neuromuscular junctions following local injection is unique for the treatment of facial wrinkles. Other dose-dependent anti-neuroinflammatory effects and vascular modulating properties have extended its spectrum of applications. Conditions such as temporomandibular joint disorders, sialorrhea, headache and neuropathic facial pain, muscle movement disorders, and …
Don’t Panic ! There are many things that go through your mind when you face the challenge of an ominous symptom like a tremor. You may feel personally responsible in some way for having had developed tremors, thinking you could have done something to avoid it or that you deserve it for some reason. Or you may fear you have developed an ailment that someone you knew or close to you suffered from, he shook the same way I don’t. …
