Our commitment is to help you live your best life possible through good health.
Welcome to Abbott's Parkinson's community page, dedicated to sharing and celebrating everyday moments of living well while managing the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
11/04/2025
Struggling with essential tremor? Join Dr. Juan Ramírez- Castañeda on November 14, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. CDT to learn how DBS therapy may help improve your quality of life.
Living with Parkinson’s? Discover how DBS therapy may help. Join Dr. Ben Shofty on September 8, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. CDT to learn how DBS therapy may help improve your quality of life.
Living with Parkinson’s? Discover how DBS therapy may help. Join Dr. Ben Shofty on September 8, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. CDT to learn how DBS therapy may help improve your quality of life.
Struggling with essential tremor? Join Dr. Shervin Rahminpour on August 4, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. CDT to learn how DBS therapy may help improve your quality of life.
“If DBS is going to help me, why wait?” Ed, a Liberta RC™ DBS System recipient describes his journey with Parkinson’s and the conversations that led him to movement symptom relief. “After Ed had the DBS surgery, it was like a miracle happened,” said Ed’s wife and care partner, Jane.
The video is intended for patients and caregivers.
Join Ed M as he describes how living with Parkinson’s led him to choose the Liberta RC™ DBS System, and how its advanced features help him stay active and in...
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Welcome to Abbott's Parkinson's Disease community page, dedicated to sharing and celebrating everyday moments of living well while managing the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Our commitment is to help you live your best life possible through good health. One way we do that is by researching and developing better ways to live your best life with Parkinson's disease.
We want you to have a place to share thoughts about taking better control of Parkinson's symptoms. DBS therapy may be an option for finding greater symptom control and more time to live your best life.
DBS is a personalized therapy that works by stimulating areas of the brain associated with involuntary movements using a thin, implanted wire connected to an implanted stimulator.
DBS therapy can work along with medication to help improve control of your symptoms. Stimulation can be turned off or adjusted to meet unique therapeutic needs.
Consider taking control of your Parkinson’s disease and feeling more like yourself again.
Risk Information: There is no cure for Parkinson’s disease (PD), but there are options available to treat symptoms. The first-line therapy is medication. Surgical treatments are also available. It’s important to discuss with your doctor what’s right for you along with the risks and side effects of each option, such as motor fluctuations or permanent neurological impairment. As with any surgery or therapy, deep brain stimulation has risks and complications. Most side effects of DBS surgery are temporary and correct themselves over time. Some people may experience lasting, stroke-like symptoms, such as weakness, numbness, problems with vision or slurred speech. In the event that the side effects are intolerable or you are not satisfied with the therapy, the DBS system can be turned off or surgically removed. Risks of brain surgery include serious complications such as coma, bleeding inside the brain, paralysis, seizures and infection. Some of these may be fatal.