Movement Disorders

Treatment in Florida

All diagnosis and treatment options for movement disorders described in these pages are available at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

Movement Disorders Program

The Movement Disorders Program at Mayo Clinic in Florida provides advanced evaluation and treatment for various movement disorders. The program is internationally recognized in the surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.

Neurologists who have been fellowship-trained in movement disorders work with neurosurgeons experienced in stereotactic surgery and with specially trained nursing and paramedical staff to provide comprehensive evaluations and the latest medical and surgical treatments. Access to new therapies is available through clinical research trials.

Specifically, the program offers:

• Evaluation and treatment of all movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor and dystonia (including torticollis).
• Drug treatments
• Surgery, including thalamotomy and pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease and essential tremor and deep brain stimulation such as thalamic, pallidal and subthalamic stimulation.
• Electronic, implantable tremor-control therapy
• Botulinum toxin injections

Through clinic research protocols, patients have access to:

• Multiple trials with experimental therapies
• Medical and surgical therapeutic trials for Parkinson's disease and essential tremor
• Studies involving progressive supranuclear palsy and cortical basal ganglionic degeneration
• A brain bank registry
• Familial (environmental-hereditary) movement disorder studies

Research Studies

Physicians and scientists at Mayo Clinic in Florida also are undertaking several research studies in movement disorders. Read more about movement disorders research.

Treatment Team

This disease is treated by specialists in Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Appointments

For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at (904) 953-0853 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern time Monday through Friday, or complete an online appointment request form.