The features, causes and management strategies for essential tremor and how nurses can support patients with this common ...

SEATTLE — About 5% of people over the age of 60 experience essential tremor, a nervous system condition that causes involuntary movements most frequently affecting the hands. “Essentially if you want ...

Essential tremor is one of the most common movement disorders, yet it often is mistaken for other neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. Affecting an estimated 7 to 10 million Americans, ...

Katharine Hepburn had it. So did playwright Eugene O'Neill and Sen. Robert Byrd. Essential tremor is a condition that causes involuntary shaking. While it usually develops in middle age, it can start ...

Q: I am 46 years old and first noticed a few tremors when I was in my mid-20s. My grandmother, mother and one of my aunts experienced head tremors. The tremors are somewhat worse now but not enough to ...

This week we are going to discuss tremors in the individual, particularly hand tremors which are caused by a variety of conditions. Have you ever noticed someone tremoring for no apparent reason? Many ...

Writing a sentence or drinking a bottle of water is something most of us take for granted. But for an estimated 10 million people in the U.S. who suffer from essential tremor, the shaking of their ...

Essential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder affecting about 2% of the American population, and more than 20% of those ...

Dementia may be three times more common among people with essential tremor, a movement disorder that causes involuntary shaking, than the general population, according to research released today, ...

Dear Dr. Donohue • My hands shake, sometimes uncontrollably and always embarrassingly. People ask me if it's my nerves. I tell them I don't think so. I'm really not the least bit nervous. If it's not ...

Finding part of your body shaking involuntarily can be distressing, especially when there’s no clear cause. Hand tremors, for instance, can make it difficult to complete everyday activities like ...