Movement Disorders Neurology — Dallas, Tx

Movement disorders require more than just a prescription. They respond to exercise, sleep, stress management, and consistent access to a neurologist who actually knows you. That’s the care we build here.

An Introduction to Movement Disorders

Your body moves because your brain tells it to. When that communication breaks down — the signals arrive wrong, arrive late, or don’t arrive at all — the result is a movement disorder.

For some people, that looks like a tremor that makes it hard to hold a coffee cup. For others, it’s a shuffle that wasn’t there last year, a muscle that won’t stop pulling, or a balance that feels increasingly unreliable. These aren’t small things. They affect your independence, your confidence, and your daily life in ways that a 15-minute appointment was never designed to address.

Dr. Chambers and Dr. Mentreddi specialize in movement disorders. They’ve spent additional fellowship training years focused specifically on these conditions — and they treat them with a depth of time and attention that traditional neurology rarely allows.

Movement Disorders We Treat

Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s is a progressive neurological condition that affects movement, balance, and — often overlooked — sleep, mood, and cognition. It develops when dopamine-producing neurons in the brain gradually break down, disrupting the brain’s ability to coordinate smooth, intentional movement.

Early symptoms are easy to miss: a slight arm tremor, handwriting that’s shrinking, a face that others describe as “flat.” Over time, slowness, stiffness, and postural instability become more prominent. What’s less discussed is that Parkinson’s is as much a whole-body condition as a movement condition — sleep, stress, social engagement, and nutrition all influence how the disease progresses.

Essential Tremor

Essential tremor is the most common movement disorder, affecting far more people than Parkinson’s disease — yet it’s frequently misunderstood, undertreated, or simply dismissed. Unlike Parkinson’s tremor, which occurs at rest, essential tremor shows up during movement: writing, eating, lifting a glass, reaching for something on a shelf.

For some, it’s a minor inconvenience. For others — especially those whose work requires precise hand movements — even a mild tremor can have an outsized impact. The right approach isn’t automatically more medication. It’s a plan built around how tremor actually affects your specific life.

Dystonia

Dystonia causes muscles to contract involuntarily, twisting or pulling the affected area into positions you didn’t choose and can’t easily override. It can affect the neck, eyelids, hand, voice, or entire body, depending on the type. Stress and anxiety reliably worsen symptoms — something that’s nearly universal among dystonia patients, and something most treatment plans don’t adequately address.

When Botox is part of the treatment, the detail that matters is who’s injecting it. Dr. Chambers and Dr. Mentreddi have fellowship-level training in movement disorders, which means experience with complicated injection patterns and the careful balance between enough toxin to be effective and not so much that it causes weakness. This is a distinction that general neurologists injecting Botox may not have experience with.

Ataxia

Ataxia affects the brain’s ability to coordinate movement, producing an unsteady, wide-based gait, difficulty with fine motor tasks, and often slurred speech. For most causes of ataxia, pharmaceutical options are limited — which means care has to be built around what actually helps: physical therapy, exercise, lifestyle coaching, and reducing or eliminating substances that worsen the condition.

That also means practical support that often gets overlooked: home safety assessments to reduce fall and fracture risk, and help navigating the paperwork and approval process for assistive devices — specialized walkers, motorized wheelchairs, voice technology — that improve both safety and independence.

Gait and Balance Disorders

Feeling unsteady, shuffling, or finding that turns feel more precarious than they used to — these are signs worth taking seriously, not attributing to age. Gait and balance disorders have a long list of potential causes, and most patients have more than one contributing factor at once.

Getting to the root of it takes time: a careful history, observation of how you actually walk and move, and the patience to work through overlapping possibilities. That kind of investigation tends to get cut short in traditional care. It shouldn’t be.