Many of us will have seen the various active assistive devices which have appeared over the last few years to help people with a hand tremor. Probably the best known was a fork with a set of ...

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It is extremely distressing to watch someone succumb to an uncontrollable hand tremor. Simple tasks become frustrating and impossible, and a person previously capable becomes frail and vulnerable.

These seemingly innocuous hand gestures are considered rude in many parts of the world. “Hand gestures can vary significantly in their meaning cross-culturally, with common ones in one country ...

A review of the clinical features in 350 consecutive patients diagnosed with essential tremor referred to the Movement Disorders Clinic at Baylor Medicine has shown that hands are involved in 90 ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — Doctors are calling it a medical breakthrough for people who suffer from what are called essential tremors. The new technology treats the neurological causes of ...

Three main signs of the condition visibly affect physical movement, and when many think of Parkinson's, they think of hand and arm tremors. But there is one warning sign that can present itself ...

US bioelectronics company Cala has formally launched its wristwatch-like Cala kIQ device to relieve hand tremors in people with Parkinson’s disease, adding to its current use in essential tremor.

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The hand is where the mind meets the world. We humans use our hands to build fires and sew quilts, to steer airplanes ...