ASHEVILLE, N.C.-- For many patients with Parkinson's disease, the tremors can be frustrating and the medication sickening, but an implant in the brain can be life changing.
Parkinson's patient Todd Dalton is doing a lot better than just over a year ago.
"I had tremors on my right side, balance issues...my patterns of stepping and everything was just terrible really." he says.
"When you have Parkinson's disease, your motor areas of the brain, or the parts of the brain that control how you move work fine. It's the filters in the brain that don't modulate the movements the correct way," explains Neurosurgeon Doctor Richard Lytle.
Tired of shakiness and taking lots of medicine, Todd had a deep brain stimulator implanted in his brain at Mission Health.
"What this stimulator does is actually jam the signals (some of those modulation pathways deep in the brain) that restore the balance and allow people to move more normally," Dr. Lytle said.
Todd says the stimulator has given him his my life back
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