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Wednesday 12 October 2022
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The German Association of Neurologists said that slow movements, loss of balance, tremors, unsteady gait and unstable body posture herald Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disease of the central nervous system, which primarily affects the system locomotive.
Symptoms also include muscle stiffness, loss of sensation, pain in joints and extremities, stiffness of facial expressions, regression or loss of smell when the patient talks, laughs or points in a dream; Because they are not prevented from doing these activities during dream sleep (REM sleep behavior disorder) like healthy people.
Due to these symptoms, patients find it difficult to perform daily activities such as washing and dressing, and their handwriting appears flaky.
The association explained that the causes of Parkinson’s disease lie in age, genetic changes and the death of dopamine-producing cells in the brain, noting that treatment includes medications, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and deep brain stimulation.