First a little history: The familial Essential Tremor was first described by the German physician Georg Friedrich Most in 1836, while the term essential tremor (originally from the Italian language ‘tremore semplice essenziale’) was used for the first time in 1874 by the professor of medicine Pietro Burresi, who described the case of an 18-year-old man suffering from severe hand tremor while moving, as well as head tremor. In 1817, James Parkinson was the first to point out that ET was a disorder separate from Parkinson’s disease (PD), but his report was not published until 1887. A classic description of the disease was presented in 1925 by the Russian neurologist Lazar Salomonowicz Minor, after which ET is often also called ‘Minor’s disease’
Historical underpinnings of the term essential tremor in the late 19th century
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3461999/
It took until 2013 for Essential Tremors to receive its own medical classification identifier!
The International Classification of Diseases-10th Revision-Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) ushers in, for the first time, a specific diagnostic code for essential tremor (“G25.0, essential tremor”). This milestone should not pass without comment. --Elan D Louis
From: The Lancet Neurology MARCH 01, 2013
The full description reads:
2021 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code is G25.0 Essential tremor (benign)
…and that in my opinion is incorrect. Benign Essential Tremors is an old and now obsolete term. I even doubt the veracity of the term “Essential” but that is the term the medico people use.
Essential: In medicine, of unknown cause…
There is nothing benign about Essential Tremors. Essential Tremors has the potential to significantly disrupt daily activities and/or social interactions.
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