Parkinson’s Treatment — i on NIH — episode #0006, segment 2

29.06.10 / Parkinson Treatment / Author: Alex
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Dr. Joseph Pancrazio from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Bill Schmalfeldt discuss deep brain stimulation as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Transcripts available at: www.nih.gov
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Treatment For Parkinson And Remedies For Parkinson Disease

Parkinson’s disease (PD) belongs to a group of conditions called motor system disorders, which are the result of the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells.
The four main symptoms of PD are tremor, or wobbly in hands, arms, legs, jaw, and face; rigidity, or stiffness of the limb and trunk; bradykinesia, or slowness of group; and postural instability, or impaired balance and harmonization.
As these symptoms become more distinct, patients may have complexity walking, talking, or other simple tasks.
Causes of Parkinson
1.    An adverse reaction to prescription drugs
2.    Use of illegal drugs
3.    Exposure to environmental toxins
4.    Stroke
5.    Thyroid and parathyroid disorders
6.    Repeated head trauma (for example, the trauma associated with boxing)
7.    Brain tumor
Symptoms of Parkinson
1.    Bradykinesia is slowness in voluntary movement. It produces complexity initiate group, as well as difficulty completing movement once it is in progress.
2.    Tremors in the hands, fingers, forearm, or foot tend to occur when the limb is at rest, but not when the patient is Rigidity, or stiff muscles, may produce muscle pain and facial maskingdrama tasks. Tremor may occur in the mouth and chin as well.
3.    Rigidity, or stiff muscles, may create muscle pain and facial mask. Rigidity tends to increase during movement.
4.    Poor balance is due to the injury or loss of the reflexes that adjust posture in order to uphold balance. Falls are common in people with Parkinson’s disease.
Treatment of Parkinson
No known treatment can stop or reverse the breakdown of nerve cells that causes Parkinson’s disease.
However, drugs can relieve many symptoms of the disease. Surgery also can be effective in a small number of people to treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Treatment is dissimilar for every person, and the type of treatment you will need may modify as the disease progress.
Your age, work status, family, and living wage situation can all affect decision about when to begin treatment, what types of treatment to use, and when to make change in treatment.
Home remedies for Parkinson
1.    Diet plays an important role in the treatment of this disease. To begin with, the patient should resort to a short juice fast for five days.
2.    In this regimen, he be supposed to take a glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice, diluted with water on 50:50 basis, every two hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
3.    Fruits and vegetables which may be second-hand for juicing are apple, pineapple, grapes, orange, tomato, carrot, cabbage and spinach. A warm water enema be supposed to be used daily to cleanse the intestines during the period of fasting.
4.    After the short juice fast, the patient may adopt an all-fruit diet for further 5 days. During this period, he be supposed to take three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits, such as apple, pear, peach, papaya, grapes, orange and pineapple, at five-hourly intervals.
5.    Thereafter, he may steadily adopt a well-balanced lacto-vegetarian diet. The emphasis should be on raw seeds, nuts and grains, plenty of sprouts, raw milk, if possible goat’s milk, and raw fruits and vegetables.
6.    Green leafy vegetables and yellow turnips are particularly beneficial. Sesame seeds and sesame seed butter can be in use with helpful results. In general, a low-protein diet of raw, organically grown foods is best for the patient with Parkinson’s disease.

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Question by hydra1970: Does Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment for Parkinson’s Patients deal with other symptons beyond shaking?
Does Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment for Parkinson’s Patients treat other symptons beyond shaking? Does it help with the rigidity?

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Answer by puenembra
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Marking Parkinson’s


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More accurate disease biomarkers open the door to earlier detection, more effective prevention, and better treatment. To this end, a team of researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the UCLA School of Medicine collaborated to study two oxidative modifications of the amino acid tyrosine (3, 4- dihydroxyphenylalanine [DOPA] and dopaquinone), to examine a possible link to multiple human diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, atherosclerosis, myocardial disease, and cataracts. Using the world-class proteomics capabilities at the Department of Energy’s EMSL—specifically, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) with a custom, EMSL-innovated electrospray ionization interface—the team

produced the first proteome survey of these tyrosine modifications in mouse brain and heart tissues. The detailed results of this study may help establish more sensitive biomarkers for disease pathologies; they also complement current biomarkers by helping distinguish inflammatory from non-inflammatory physiological states.

Learn more at www.emsl.pnl.gov/news/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=92