About the Program

The Parkinson's Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center (PADRECC) at Richmond VAMC 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 surgical techniques to the treatment of —

• Parkinson's disease
• essential tremor
• dystonia
• other movement disorders

Services Offered

Services offered by the Center include —

• extensive neurological and neurosurgical 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
• surgical treatment
• pallidotomy, a procedure which can signficantly improve most signs of Parkinson's disease
• thalamotomy, a procedure effective in reducing tremors