Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy manages some of the most disabling motor symptoms of the three most common movement disorders – Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia.

Developed by Medtronic, in collaboration with clinicians and researchers from around the world starting in the 1980s, it ranks as one of the most significant and innovative advances in the treatment of movement disorders.

DBS is an adjustable, reversible, non-destructive treatment for motor symptoms of movement disorders that offers patients greater freedom to live and work. It can have a profound effect on the lives of people with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor by improving their motor control, mobility, and functional ability.

Deep Brain Stimulation uses a surgically implanted medical device, similar to a cardiac pacemaker, to deliver carefully controlled electrical pulses to precisely targeted areas of the brain involved in motor control and muscle function.

Electrical stimulation of these areas normalizes the brain circuits that control movements. The stimulation can be programmed and adjusted non-invasively (without surgery), by a trained clinician to maximize symptom control and minimize side effects.