Bud Leavell, 72, had gone years without being able to hold anything firmly. 🖐️
Parkinson’s had robbed him of something as simple as eating without spilling or tightening a screw. In Arlington, Texas, he kept his old radios untouched because his hands no longer responded to him. But at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dr. Bhavya Shah administered a focused ultrasound treatment, approved by the FDA only in January 2026, that uses high-energy waves to shut off, without cutting anything, the brain signal that causes the tremor.
On April 13, while they were still testing the correct intensity, Bud’s tremor stopped right there, on the examination table. 😳 He returned home that same week, and the first thing he did was pick up a screwdriver. It is not an isolated case: another patient in Florida experienced something almost identical months earlier, and this is beginning to change the way medicine understands Parkinson’s.