How Parkinson's Disease Affects the Body

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How Parkinson's Disease Affects the Body

Definition of Parkinson's disease. Celebrity first disease

          Parkinson (Parkinson) is a disease appear gradually. And starts , often , shivering almost imperceptible and invisible in one of the hands. While the emergence of Flicker hallmark of the most pronounced for Parkinson's disease , syndrome generally lead to slow or freeze movement too. Can friends and family members note the deadlock in the facial features are incapable of speech, and not to move the arms on both sides of the body when walking. As speech becomes , often , more looseness interspersed with gibberish .

The symptoms of Parkinson's disease are getting worse as the disease progresses more .

In spite of the lack of the possibility of recovery from Parkinson's disease , but many kinds of drugs for the treatment of Parkinson's can help alleviate symptoms. The call for the need , in certain cases , resort to surgical treatments .

Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease

Different symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease from one person to another. The initial symptoms are only implied, without being observed could be many months, or even several years. Symptoms begin to appear, first, in one side of the body, and are always more severe and dangerous in the same side, in the future.

The symptoms of Parkinson's disease include:

• Jitter / flutter: Flicker (Shiver) characteristic that accompany Parkinson's disease often begins in one of the hands. They appear in the form of rubbing the thumb finger of frequent movement of the index finger, forward and backward. This is the most common presentation. But, with a large proportion of patients with Parkinson's do not show a strong tremor can be observed. 

• Slowness of movement (Bradykinesia): Parkinson's disease may limit the patient's ability to carry out the movements and actions, which may make it the most daily activities easier and simpler tasks are complex and need to be the longest period of time. When walking, the patient may become shorter steps and sluggish, dragging his feet on, or may be frozen in place, which makes it difficult for him to start the first step.

• Muscular rigidity (muscle stiffness): usually appears at parties and in the nape (back of neck). It may be sometimes very severe rigidity to the extent that it restricts the range of motion and be accompanied by severe pain.
  

• The patient is upright stature and lack of balance: Parkinson's patient may become convex body, as a result of the disease. It may also suffer from a lack of balance, which is a common symptom in patients with Parkinson's disease, even though it be moderate, in general, until the most advanced stages of the disease.

• Loss of involuntary movement: party eye (Blinking), smiling and moving hands when walking - are involuntary movements, which are an integral part of being human. But these movements in patients with Parkinson's appear less frequently, but it's disappearing at all in some cases. It may be for some patients with Parkinson's a frozen look, without the ability to blinking, while others may appear without any expressive movements or it may seem, and hear.

• Changes in the speech: most of Parkinson's patients suffer from difficulty in speaking. Word of the patient may become much softer, unilateral pace, mono-pitched, has been "swallowed" part of words from time to time or may repeat the words said it before, or may become hesitant when he wants to speak.
  

• Dementia: When the advanced stages of the disease, some patients with Parkinson's suffer from memory problems. In this area, may help medicine used to treat Alzheimer's disease to reduce some of these symptoms to a more moderate degree.