Which Patients are Eligible and What is the Selection Process? Patients are first seen by a movement disorders neurologist for a detailed neurological evaluation. The neurologist will try to determine if the dystonia is primary (meaning ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

What Are the Surgical Risks and Programming Side Effects? Surgical risks including bleeding in the brain causing stroke is approximately 1-2% per lead. Patients can develop temporary or permanent neurological deficits from this bleeding, the severit...

[Read the rest of this article...]

What is the Difference Between DBS For Dystonia and DBS For Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor? The surgical technique and pre-operative medical assessment and post-operative care for DBS surgery are similar in all these disorders, how...

[Read the rest of this article...]

What Types of Dystonia Can DBS Improve? The FDA has approved DBS for primary dystonia for patients age seven or older. Primary (or idiopathic) dystonia is dystonia that is not due to a secondary cause such as stroke, cerebral palsy, tumor, trauma,...

[Read the rest of this article...]