Parkinson's disease treatment

Parkinson's disease is actually a common neurodegenerative disease among middle-aged and elderly people. Its main symptoms are resting tremor, slow and reduced movements, increased muscle tone and unstable posture, etc. The older the people are, the more susceptible they are to this disease. Let's take a look at the methods that can treat Parkinson's disease so that the elderly can more effectively prevent these diseases and ensure their health.

Although Parkinson's disease is a disease that many elderly people will encounter, it can seriously affect the physical and mental health of the elderly. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to timely treatment. Only in this way can we better reduce the various physical harms it brings to us.

(1) Drug treatment: In the early stages of the disease, drugs can effectively improve symptoms. The most commonly used and effective drug is levodopa preparation (trade name: Madopar or Sinime), which has been used in clinical treatment since the 1960s and has been the most core drug in clinical practice until now. The medication must be taken long-term; once treatment is stopped, the condition will relapse. Drug treatment is most effective in the first few years. Although long-term use is still effective for most patients, after long-term use, patients will feel that the effective time of the drug is shortened, and some patients will experience "end of dose" and "on and off" fluctuations. Drug treatment has certain limitations. Usually after 3-5 years of treatment, the condition will become difficult to control, the side effects of the drugs will offset their efficacy, and patients will feel that their ability to live daily life is greatly restricted.

2) Surgical treatment: There are mainly two methods: neuron nucleus cell destruction surgery (cytokine) and electrical stimulation surgery. The principle is to inhibit the abnormal activity of brain cells to achieve the purpose of improving symptoms. The former is to create a lesion with a diameter of about 3 mm on the abnormally active nerve nucleus, while the latter is to implant a stimulator to achieve a similar lesion effect through high-frequency electrical stimulation. From a surgical operation technical point of view, there is not much difference between the two. Both involve placing electrodes on specific brain nuclei target points and then stimulating or destroying them.

The above are some methods for treating Parkinson's. After understanding, we found that the general treatment is through medication or surgery. At the same time, this also tells us not to blindly take various drugs or folk prescriptions, so that these diseases can be completely cured.