title: Taking on Essential Tremor: New Tools and Approaches Offer patients Increased Treatment Options.
abstract: Every year, Doris's primary care physician sends her to see a neurologist to check on her hand tremor, which has increasingly worsened over the past 20 years. Year in and year out, the neurologist asks her to draw a circle on a piece of paper. "The doctor looks at it, says 'Hmm,' and sends me home," Doris explains, adding that she gets no treatment, no recommendations, nothing except a request to schedule next year's appointment.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mertz
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004435:Eating; D020329:Essential Tremor / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000295:instrumentation*