Essential Tremor is a progressive neurological disorder and the most common movement disorder. It is 8-10 times more common than Parkinson’s Disease affecting more than 1 million people in the UK, including children as well as adults. There is very little awareness of this incredibly debilitating condition that destroys the lives of those living with it, or those who live with them. Simple everyday tasks that most of us take for granted (such as putting a key in a lock, using a touchscreen mobile phone, doing up buttons on a shirt, eating/drinking etc etc) become impossible, causing intense frustration, mental anxiety and, in many cases, reclusiveness and depression.

I am privileged to work for a company that has an incisionless therapy for Essential Tremor that in many cases provides a level of tremor control that can restore the individual’s ability to perform those very activities that most of us undertake without giving a second thought.

This Sunday 16th October, I am taking on The Great South Run! I shall be attempting to haul myself round the 16km (10 mile) course and hope to raise as money as possible that can be used by the National Tremor Foundation for vital acrivities such as providing support groups for people living with ET, raising awarensss of the condition, and providing research opportunities to develop further therapies, clinical understanding, and perhaps one day a cure.

Please give whatever you can, even if you think it’s not very mich, since as a rather famous supermarket once said, “Every Little Helps”.

Thank you for taking the time to read the above, and thank you for anything you feel you can donate to this very worthy cause.