What is essential tremor?

Essential tremor, patients mainly manifest as hand or forearm posture or action tremor, but also head, neck, lower limbs, occasionally tongue, face, trunk and other parts of the tremor, some patients may affect their fine motor tremors, such as writing, etc.

Essential tremor is a movement disorder, the exact ** is not clear, may be related to genetics, patients generally present with hand or upper arm posture, action tremor, most patients have mild symptoms, slow progression, do not affect the patient's disability, do not need special **.

In some patients, when symptoms are severe, there may be a decrease in quality of life, and propranolol can be taken by mouth or thalamic destruction can be performed. The disease can occur at any age, and the incidence is higher in middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old.

Essential tremor cannot be completely cured, but the patient's symptoms can be relieved by the use of drugs. Essential tremor is a family disorder that can occur at any age, and the exact ** is still not well understood.

Most patients with essential tremor have mild symptoms, and the symptoms of hand shaking may worsen when performing fine movements and mental tension. However, because the symptoms are relatively mild, the vast majority of patients do not need special treatment**; There are also a small number of patients with more severe symptoms, and oral drugs such as propranolol, atenolol, etc., can alleviate the patient's symptoms, but not completely**.

Essential tremor is often manifested by tremor movements during nervousness or immobilization, exertion, hunger, or fatigue, which can be temporarily relieved later, but the tremor may worsen the next day.

Essential tremor, also known as essential tremor and familial tremor, is an autosomal dominant genetic disease, which is mainly manifested as involuntary tremor of the upper and lower limbs or head and face, and sometimes vocal tremor.

Tremors occur during limb movement, affecting daily behaviors such as holding objects, writing, and using tools. As the disease progresses, tremor can progress to the head and neck, with tremors similar to nodding and shaking heads, which in severe cases affect speech function and lead to slurred speech.

Essential tremor is predominantly 60% and has a family history, mainly manifested by hand tremor, followed by head tremor. This tremor is to be distinguished from Parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease.

Essential tremor is caused by abnormal signaling in specific areas of the brain, including the cerebellum, thalamus, and brainstem. The exact cause of the disease is unknown, but about 30% to 50% of patients have a family history and are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. However, some people who have no family history can also get the disease.

Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder and consists mainly of postural and motor tremor in the hands, head, and other parts of the body. Essential tremor has a conflicting clinical nature, on the one hand, it is a mild single symptomatic disease, and on the other hand, it is a common progressive disease with significant clinical variation. The tremor of this disease, which worsens with concentration, nervousness, fatigue, and hunger, and in most cases disappears temporarily after drinking alcohol and worsens the next day, which is also a clinical feature of essential tremor.

Essential tremor** is unclear and can be confused with tremor produced by other disorders.

Essential tremor has certain genetic factors, the pathogenesis is not clear at present, and is generally related to activities such as nervous rhythmic burst discharge.

Guidance: Hello, essential tremor, also known as familial tremor, may be related to peripheral muscles and central autonomic oscillations and other reasons, the only symptom is tremor, first starting from the upper limbs, with the increase of the disease, will gradually extend to the head, trunk, lower limbs. Most patients do not need it, and a few patients need to use medications.

There are many causes of essential tremor, but there is no clear cause and may be related to the following factors:

1. Genetic factors, people with a family history of heredity are more likely to get sick;

2. Environmental factors;

3. Long-term exposure to special drugs or chemical poisons;

4. Consumption of allergenic substances such as seafood;

5. After a cold or exertion, the hands are found to tremble involuntarily, and such cryptogenic factors can also lead to essential tremor.

After the occurrence of essential tremor, attention should be paid to it, timely medical treatment, and regular **.

Essential tremor may be a hereditary factor, may be caused by inflammation or infection, and has a certain relationship with the low immunity of the individual's body.

Essential tremor belongs to the category of "tremor syndrome" in traditional Chinese medicine, and its essence is false. And the wood fire is full, and the kidney yin is not full. The deficiency of blood in the liver and kidney is the pathogenesis of this disease, which is the evidence of the mixture of the virtual standard and the real and the false.

Essential tremor has a long course of disease, mostly in middle-aged and elderly people, with progressive exacerbation, with limb tremor as the main manifestation. It is related to sperm and blood failure in the elderly, liver and kidney insufficiency, and yin and yang imbalance. After middle age, the kidney essence gradually loses, if the body is congenitally insufficient, or the desire to hurt the kidney, because the liver and kidney are particularly closely related, the kidney essence deficit is larger, then it can not nourish the liver wood, resulting in the loss of muscles and veins, wood dryness and wind, so there is tremor in the limbs, the liver and kidney belong to the same source, the kidney deficiency is not water, so there is liver and kidney yin deficiency, muscles and veins are not nourished, the void wind moves internally, and the tremor is formed.

If the spleen and stomach are damaged, the phlegm and dampness are endogenous, and the soil is not planted, which also causes the wind and wood to move internally and tremble.