Terry Crews' wife reveals Parkinson's treatment that stopped tremors: 'I can write my name again'

Terry Crews' wife Rebecca has opened up about the Parkinson's treatment that halted the tremors caused by the disease.

The 60-year-old recently underwent a life-changing non-invasive procedure, called focused ultrasound (FUS), that uses sound waves directed into the brain to help with her symptoms.

She told People magazine that the breakthrough has restored her ability to write and stopped the shaking she experienced on the right side of her body.

'I feel good. I’m able to write my name and my dates, and I’m able to write with my right hand for the first time in probably three years,' Rebecca revealed.

She has been dealing with the neurodegenerative condition for the past 11 years of her 36-year marriage to Crews, 57.

But she only recently went public with it 'because I finally have some uplifting information to offer.'

While speaking with the outlet, Rebecca recalled the moment her husband suggested she try FUS.

'I was kneeling by my bed, praying and crying because I had not slept in several nights and was just ready to die,' she opened up.

The progressive, incurable neurological disorder causes muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, tremors, sleep disturbance, chronic fatigue, an impaired quality of life and can lead to severe disability.

Michael J. Fox was famously diagnosed with it at age 29 in 1991.

'It's a very cool, emerging technology,' said Stanford University neurosurgeon Dr. Vivek Buch about FUS.

'It gives [Parkinson's patients] back control over the simple things in life like eating and putting on clothes that you don't realize how important they are until they're taken away from you.'

The treatment lasts for five hours, and on the day of his wife's procedure, Crews was forced to be overseas for work.

While he couldn't be there in person, he stayed on the phone with doctors while Rebecca was in the MRI scanner. 

He recalled, 'I stayed on the phone the middle of the night in Australia as the doctor was giving me progress reports. When I finally heard she made it out and everything was ok, it was a beautiful moment.'

Rebecca recognized improvement almost immediately, sharing that results of the treatment came within hours. 

'I was at the hotel [near the hospital] and as I was trying to put my pants on I realized that I could lift my leg without holding onto a table or anything. And then I realized that I could write and sign my name in perfectly legible handwriting. 

I couldn't do any of those things before [having the procedure],' she explained.

She will undergo a second procedure for the left side of her body in September. 

'It's definitely been hard to watch her on those days when I see her so worn out by this,' Crews said. 'We're going through this together.'

Rebecca revealed her first symptoms appeared around 2012, manifesting as numbness in her left foot, which became a limp.

Her doctor believed the limp was due to working out too much, but she said her personal trainer noticed her left arm wasn't 'swinging as much as her right' during some exercises.

The star, who shares five children with the America's Got Talent host, said she later noticed her hand shaking when she applied lip gloss, which she instantly recognized as a tremor because 'my grandmother had tremors.'