Eddie Adcock

Eddie Adcock is a bluegrass banjo musician who plays the banjo and the guitar as well. He often is on stage with his wife Martha whom he married in 1976 and they have been making bluegrass music since then as the band called ‘’The Adcocks’’. Eddie and Martha are considered one of the top bluegrass bands in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Adcock

In October of 2008, Eddie Adcock underwent brain surgery in order to fix a tremor in his hand. During the surgery, he was kept awake and played his banjo in order to gauge the success of the treatment.http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=5941480&page=1

This surgery was performed by surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Surgeons performed a procedure called "deep brain stimulation," which is like a pacemaker for the brain. Surgeons placed an electrode in an area of Adcock's brain which, when stimulated, eliminates his hand tremors.http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=5941480&page=1