About the Program
The Parkinson's Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center (PADRECC) Consortium Center at Cincinnati VA Medical Center serves as a nationwide referral center providing comprehensive care to patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.
The Center specializes in applying advanced research and state-of-the-art clinical expertise to the treatment of —
- Parkinson's disease
- essential tremor
- dystonia
- other movement disorders
Services Offered
Services offered by the Center include —
- extensive neurological 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
- referral for surgical treatment to PADRECC center
- inpatient and outpatient comprehensive clinical care for Parkinson disease as well as other movement disorders (such as essential tremor, Huntington disease, dystonia)
- botulinum toxin injections for focal dystonias
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