Parkinson's Disease Overview

" I -- your job -- Lanza is waiting to see his doctor. He traveled all the way from Venezuela to Miami for a follow up on his parkinson's condition he doesn't speak English his daughter translates. Your organs. Yeah. Giacomo vigilance that is 74. He's had Parkinson's disease for eight years. Since his previous doctor's visit his parkinson's symptoms have advanced."

" Parkinson's disease is a progressive. Degenerative. Process. Taking place within a certain part of the brain. Causing movement. Difficulties."

" That part of the brain is to substantiate Niagara. Loss of opening producing neurons in the substantiate Niagara cause the nerve cells that control muscle movement is billion out of control. Resulting in an inability to control muscle and body movement normally."

" The most easily recognizable symptom of Parkinson which is that trauma of the tremor is very specific -- saying. Rest Cameron meaning that when their lives at risk the tremors shows up. And when you move demand that trauma becomes less severe sometime even disappears completely."

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" second symptoms of parkinson's diseases can increase muscle tone. Rigidity 83 symptoms of Parkinson's disease is difficulty initiating move and and patient with parkinson's for instance will have difficulty initiating getting have from the chair. Or any of -- that they have to make. That out automated tends to be slow down about a million Americans are affected with Parkinson's disease. "

" The average age of onset is in mid 50s5556. Awful 10% of patients have the Johnson before the age of forty dollar loss of Parkinson's disease or who could be removed from."

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" Really -- very -- real pain medications. Include drugs that. Feed the symptoms of Parkinson's disease the first of these was never go -- Larson met. And many subsequent medications don't antagonist. And all of these health Parkinson's disease. For many years and patience a problem with the medications is that after five years or more although they still continue to work. They have side effects and the side effects include the wearing off problem the -- an easy problem these problems are manageable. With the change in medication but they're not. They're not necessarily easy to manage. For this reason patients are often considered her surgical approach. These techniques go back to the 1950s but only in recent years have they become we find the most. Effectiveness surgical treatment for Parkinson's disease at the moment is deep brain stimulation."

" Today parkinson's patients can be active in -- wild using combination therapies and treatment options available. As a job -- vigilantes are now -- eight years with parkinson's. It means symptoms can be eased to make living with parkinson's manageable. As you know -- right."