A common movement disorder seen in elderly patients. Also known as Shaking palsy. In these patients, as the severity of disease progresses , they find even the simple day to -day tasks like making breakfast, going to pick up the telephone, getting a glass of water, creating a shopping list can be exhausting.
Patient might look great, yet feel completely different from the way they carryout activities of daily life. Parkinson's exhaustion makes it hard to move, like you don't have any energy left. They experience a mental exhaustion which is termed as Parkinson's apathy, which makes it difficult to focus and makes it hard to start an assignment, follow directions or recall information.
Parkinson's disease is one of the diseases from the group of dementia. In medical terms, it is a progressive disorder in the nervous system affecting the movement of a patient. It sometimes causes tremors in the hands, stiffness, or slowing of movements.
According to statistics, India has 7 million older folks afflicted with Parkinson's illness. Early diagnosis by neurology doctor in east marredpally, timely intervention and appropriate treatment at best hospital for parkinsons disease in east marredpally that incorporates medicines and medical procedures decide the course of disease and control its progression.
What are the symptoms of Parkinson disorder?
Symptoms of Parkinson are
- Rigid ity in limbs
- Speech changes
- Writing change and difficulty
- Loss of voluntary movements
- Tremor
- Slower movement
- Impaired posture and balance
What are the Causes?
Parkinson can be caused due to two reasons
Genes - There are some genetic mutations that cause Parkinson's disease . But this cause occurs in very rare cases where many family members are affected by this disease.
Environmental triggers - When patients are exposed to some toxic factors or environmental changes, they are at a high risk of developing Parkinson's disease .
Problems in Parkinson
The patient may have below issues while dealing with Parkinson's disease.
- Thinking difficulty
- Swallowing issues
- Depression and emotional changes
- Sleeping issues or sleeping disorder
- Chewing and eating disorder
- Bladder issues and constipation etc.
Parkinson's disease treatment in Secunderabad by best doctors of parkinsons disease in west marredpally is done as per the stageof disease. The stages of Parkinson’s include early, mid, mid-late, and advanced stages.
Treatment
It can be treated with medication and also surgical procedures like Deep brain stimulation depending on the patient’s condition and stage of the disease. With medication like levodopa, dopamine agonists, MAO-B inhibitors , COMT inhibitors , Amantadine, etc. this helps in increasing dopamine levels and makes it available for nerve cells of the brain, mimicking the effect of dopamine in the brain, blocking enzymes that break dopamine in the brain, etc.
In surgical treatment, deep brain stimulation, pallidotomy, thalamotomy, carbidopa-levodopa infusion, etc. are the treatment options used.
