About the Program
The Parkinson's Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center (PADRECC) at VA Caribbean Healthcare System serves as a nationwide referral center providing comprehensive care to patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.
The national Center specializes in applying advanced surgical techniques to the treatment of:
- Parkinson's disease
- essential tremor
- dystonia
- other movement disorders
Services Offered
The following services are offered by referral.
- extensive neurological and neurosurgical evaluation to determine if a patient is an appropriate candidate for surgical treatment
- systematic pre-operative testing of patients deemed to be candidates for surgical treatment
- surgical treatment
- pallidotomy, a procedure which can signficantly improve most signs of Parkinson's disease
- thalamotomy, a procedure effective in reducing tremors
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