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Taking a glass of water, writing, cooking or even walking becomes an "impossible mission" for the more than 400,000 people who suffer essential tremor in our country and 150,000 with Parkinson's disease. <br>
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A Pioneering Ultrasound Technology Eliminates Essential Tremor and Parkinson's Taking a glass of water, writing, cooking or even walking becomes an "impossible mission" for the more than 400,000 people who suffer essential tremor in our country and 150,000 with Parkinson's disease. But this movement disorder that becomes crippling to develop a normal life can disappear thanks to the use of a revolutionary technique based on ultrasound and avoid resorting to traditional open skull surgery when pharmacological treatment is not adequate. The key to success lies in HIFU (High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound), a pioneering technology in our country that allows the destruction of damaged cells by raising the temperature by applying a high- frequency ultrasound beam and high energy. This is a magnetic resonance equipment with ultrasonic emissions that performs the treatment with two phases: a first, and essential, in which the exact point to which the HIFU beams are to be determined. This process takes around one and half hour and is the key to the matter since to achieve the success of the procedure it is fundamental to choose well the cerebral point on which you work. The second stage of the process consists in directing the ultrasound beams to that point. The results obtained with the application of HIFU are immediate, and the paralysis of the tremor becomes permanent so that the quality of life of the patients improves radically. In addition to treating essential tremor, ultrasound test labs in Noida professionals aim to use this technique in some patients for the tremors of Parkinson's disease. But the future is even more promising as it is expected to apply to other pathologies such as trigeminal neuralgia and even psychiatric illness. Currently, in patients with tremors, when medical treatment fails, treatment is performed with deep brain stimulation, that is, cranial surgery in which electrodes are introduced into the brain, and these are connected to a generator. This stimulates a brain area and quenches the patient's tremor. It is an invasive procedure and involves a high sanitary cost. The ultrasound test cost in Delhi for such treatment will be low and help the patients save time as well as money! The main advantage of HIFU is that no intracranial approach is necessary. During treatment, it can be seen whether the target and the effect are appropriate, while corrections can be made to improve efficiency and reduce adverse effects before producing focal tissue ablation. With HIFU, we seek to act on brain circuits that generate abnormal behavior. In the future, if this technique continues to be perfect, it can be applied to a broad spectrum of patients. Qualified employees with active, creative potential, availability of high-tech equipment of an expert class, as well as research and educational and methodological base, make it possible to realize all the possibilities of ultrasound research methods to achieve the most favorable therapeutic effect. It is
already a reality that HIFU acts against the Parkinson and is proven its great effectiveness in treatments against the trembling around the world. Hopefully the technology will soon make its way to Indian clinic and diagnostic labs and help in the treatment of the patients.
