Lehigh Valley Hospital: When It Matters Most
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Conditions We Treat

Care for Movement Disorders

Movement disorders may cause difficulty in walking, controlling your movements or other symptoms. Common movement disorders include:

  • Parkinson’s disease
  • multisystem atrophies
  • progressive supranuclear palsy
  • diffuse Lewy body disease
  • stiff-person syndrome
  • Huntington’s disease and related disorders of chorea
  • ballismus and dyskinesia
  • dystonia
  • ataxia
  • tremor and myoclonus

Diagnosis

We offer several tests to diagnose movement disorders. Our experienced staff uses state-of-the-art equipment for all of these tests: 

Treatment

The cornerstone of treatment is typically prescription drugs and rehabilitation therapy.


Need Help? Call 610-402-CARE (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday) to talk to nurses and other experts who can help you find a neuroscience doctor and more.

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Lehigh Valley Hospital has campuses in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa. and serves the Pennsylvania communities of Easton, Doylestown, Quakertown, Hazelton, Lehighton, Perkasie, Pottstown, Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Stroudsburg, and the Poconos and also Phillipsburg and Flemington, N.J., and western New Jersey. You don't have to travel to Philadelphia or New York for quality health care.

 
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