gothamprince Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 2 hours ago, gothamprince said: This is the Picture of Dr James Parkinson who described all the classic symptoms of the disease first so disease is named after him 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summer27 Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 good post 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothamprince Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 2 hours ago, gothamprince said: the most famous clue observe it carefully this is the classic paper by James Parkinson in which he described 6 patients of Parkinson's disease with classic symptoms although there are few mentions in other historical texts like charaka samhita where it is mentioned as kampavata which mentions the tremor aspect of it also by greek philosopher Galen where he classified tremors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadiesTailor Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 5 minutes ago, gothamprince said: This is the Picture of Dr James Parkinson who described all the classic symptoms of the disease first so disease is named after him Very informative thread baaa… what’s the remedy for this disease? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothamprince Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 14 minutes ago, LadiesTailor said: Very informative thread baaa… what’s the remedy for this disease? the main stay of treatment is Levadopa routinely administered along with Carbidopa , Levadopa is the most effective but it has side effects such unnecessary movements and Amantadine is used to reduce the side effects some other patients are started on Pramipexole and later started on Levadopa this should be treated with great expertise in my view to handle the side effects Deep brain stimulation using electrodes to stimulate certain areas in brain like STN, GPi areas has met with success in few selected cases where there are severe tremors or severe side effects on Levadopa gait training and exercise with full range of active and passive movements are proven helpful canes and walkers may be necessary to avoid falls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothamprince Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 32 minutes ago, LadiesTailor said: Very informative thread baaa… what’s the remedy for this disease? treatment is not simple like straight line ba there are many combination of drugs which varies with which is dominant symptoms and should be varied based on side effects depends on doctors discretion and experience 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothamprince Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 43 minutes ago, LadiesTailor said: Very informative thread baaa… what’s the remedy for this disease? will update with latest treatment guidelines later ba need to look into it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrogant_champ Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 9 hours ago, gothamprince said: the main stay of treatment is Levadopa routinely administered along with Carbidopa , Levadopa is the most effective but it has side effects such unnecessary movements and Amantadine is used to reduce the side effects some other patients are started on Pramipexole and later started on Levadopa this should be treated with great expertise in my view to handle the side effects Deep brain stimulation using electrodes to stimulate certain areas in brain like STN, GPi areas has met with success in few selected cases where there are severe tremors or severe side effects on Levadopa gait training and exercise with full range of active and passive movements are proven helpful canes and walkers may be necessary to avoid falls How to avoid it in the first place... Mana lifestyle ki especially tensions and food habits ki minimum hear attack or sugar ayithe expected... parkinsons, cancer lantivi rakapothe chaalu babu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothamprince Posted March 21 Author Report Share Posted March 21 3 hours ago, Arrogant_champ said: How to avoid it in the first place... Mana lifestyle ki especially tensions and food habits ki minimum hear attack or sugar ayithe expected... parkinsons, cancer lantivi rakapothe chaalu babu. we haven't understood parkinson's disease enough, we know it affects dopamine producing neurons causing degeneration of those , thus leading to the symptoms, but haven't understood completely the insults that cause the degeneration , some genetic mutations are identified but it has environmental factors too such as exposure to pesticides and herbicides but no concrete evidences some research has shown that aerobic exercise might reduce the risk of Parkinson's caffeine products such as coffee, green tea are also related to reducing the risk as said further studies should be done to get better picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gothamprince Posted March 24 Author Report Share Posted March 24 another useful sign of parkinson's disease is when asked to draw a house , the lines of the door doesn't reach the floor which makes it look like it's floating so this sign is called FLOATING DOOR SIGN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothamprince Posted March 24 Author Report Share Posted March 24 another useful and great sign for diagnosing parkinson's is ask them to draw a archimedes spiral they draw it like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothamprince Posted March 24 Author Report Share Posted March 24 and another interesting sign is when you ask a normal person to whistle they smile after it but parkinson's patient fail to smile called whistle smile reflex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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