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Who Is A Candidate For Deep Brain Stimulation?

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Who Is A Candidate For Deep Brain Stimulation?

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Patients suffering from disabling tremor due to Parkinson’s Disease or Essential Tremor, that cannot be controlled by medications, or who experience intolerable side effects from their medications, may be candidates for Deep Brain Stimulation therapy.Deep Brian Stimulation has been show effective for the treatment of chronic pain associated with tremor and is currently being used in some types of chronic, intractable pain.