Health & Fitness
The Day the Shaking Stopped
Racked by uncontrollable tremors from Parkinson's, she felt like a shell of herself. See how a breakthrough surgery changed everything.
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For nine years, Pat Dunstan’s life was controlled by Parkinson's disease. The 63-year-old was so racked by constant, whole-body shaking that she became a "shell of her former self," unable to perform simple tasks and desperate for help after her medication stopped working. "Everything about who I was... was disturbed by the disease," she recalls.
Her search for relief led her to the Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at JFK University Medical Center. There, neurologist Philip Hanna, M.D.and neurosurgeon Vanessa C. Milano, M.D. offered a life-changing solution: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), a procedure often called a "pacemaker for the brain." The surgery gave Pat an immediate and dramatic turnaround, silencing the tremors that had stolen her identity.
Discover how this procedure helped Pat recognize herself in the mirror again and gave her the confidence to become an inspiration for others.
Read her full, powerful story.
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