Clinics and Services

Movement Disorders

The Movement Disorders Clinic sees patients with tremor, involuntary movements, and gait difficulty. Conditions with such symptoms include Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, ataxia, generalized and focal dystonia (spasmodic torticollis, writer's cramp, blepharospasm, spasmodic dysphonia), hemifacial spasm, tics and Tourette's syndrome, chorea, myoclonus,Wilson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, normal pressure hydrocephalus, and tardive dyskinesia.

Most movement disorders are chronic and progressively disabling. They require well concerted, multidisciplinary expert care. Advances in genetics, the pharmaceutical industry, and surgical techniques have brought new frontiers to their diagnosis and treatment.

Our clinic's services include Botulinum toxin type A (BOTOX) injections and referral for surgical treatment if indicated besides diagnosis and medical treatment with drugs reflecting the most recent research.

Other Resources

Close cooperation with the following departments & experts ensures multidisciplinary care: Neurosurgery, Voice Clinic (Dr. A. Reed Thompson), Genetics, Psychiatry, Speech Pathology, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Social Services.

Current research efforts in the department include participatation in multi-center randomized clinical trials of movement disorders. For questions about clinical trial participation, please contact Jana Patterson, RN at (501) 686-8391.