New technology brings tremor treatment into the future [Video]

WILMINGTON — Doctors at ChristianaCare are blasting away bad cells with a new MR-guided focused ultrasound technology helping them relieve tremors in Delaware patients.

Dr. Justin Martello, the director of the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Programs and Focused Ultrasound Program at ChristianaCare, said the technology also works to bring the state’s most northern health care system into the forefront of future possibilities.

“In our region, the closest places [with MR-Guided Ultrasound technology] are the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, John Hopkins just bought a machine but it’s not in place yet and New Jersey surprisingly has three locations,” he said, adding that the machines available in Philadelphia and Maryland are primarily for research use at this time.

“We have a pretty big catchment area with Baltimore, Philly and Maryland as a state,” he told Delaware Business Times. “Since those machines are mostly for research, we have that catchment area to treat …