Stable Ground

Often associated with Parkinson‘s disease, tremor is a common movement disorder with a number of causes. Those causes include multiple sclerosis, stroke, traumatic brain injury, neurodegenerative diseases, drug use, alcohol abuse or withdrawal, and mercury poisoning, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health. Tremor also occurs in otherwise healthy people and may have no known cause. It appears equally in men and women, most commonly in middle age and after. Tremor can be occasional, temporary or intermittent. Read more »

Many Factors Influence Pain Perception

Pain affects more than 50 million people in the U.S. each year, and one in four Americans suffers from persistent pain, according to the National Pain Foundation. Thanks to advances in medicine, physical therapists understand pain better than they did years ago and customize their therapy to address the source of the patient‘s discomfort. Read more »