Parkinson's

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This chronic degenerative nerve disease affects up to one percent of all 60-year-olds. A number that starts with Increasing age is constantly growing. But: While Parkinson's remains incurable today, the associated symptoms are Can be easily treated with medication. Assuming the illness is detected at an early stage.

Our experienced doctors Are you ready for diagnosis and immediately following treatment at the side of all our locations.

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What is Parkinson's disease?

Popularly known only as “Parkinson's”, the term refers to a A variety of different clinical patterns. Medicine therefore knows the nerve disease as Parkinson's syndrome or symptom complex.

What all forms have in common is you origin, which in a previously medical Unexplained death of nerve cells lies in the brain. This is followed by a series neuronal disorders. Motor inhibitions, such as muscle tremors, are the most common.

The most well-known subtype of Parkinson's syndrome is Idiopathic Parkinson's syndrome (Parkinson's disease). More common forms are:

• genetic forms of Parkinson's syndrome. Here, genetic defects lead to the destruction of nerve cells
• Atypical Parkinson's syndromes. This is where nerve death occurs due to another nerve disease, e.g. Lewy body dementia
• secondary Parkinson's syndromes. Triggered by drugs, accidents, tumours, poisoning, metabolic diseases or infections

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When is it Parkinson's disease?

For a diagnosis of Parkinson's syndrome, the four following neural complaints tandem are available. These are:

• akinesis, (movement stiffening)
• rigor (general muscle tension)
• Rest tremor (trembling at rest)
• upostural instability (tendency to fall when standing upright)

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What are the triggers of Parkinson's disease?

The cause of all forms of the Parkinson's symptom complex is Death of nerve tissue in the substantia nigra. This area of the brain is closely linked to physical motor skills. If nerve cells die here, there is therefore a inhibition of the musculoskeletal system. The anomaly also results in a Dopamine neurotransmitter deficiency, which increases motor problems. One at the same time Occurring imbalance further neurotransmitters Such as norepinephrine and serotonin, also results in other symptoms related to motor limitations go out (such as dementia).

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What are the possible symptoms of Parkinson's?

Die typical symptoms Parkinson's syndrome is divided into Motor skills and additional complaints divided. The former include:

• slowed movements
• a typical still image. Consisting of: bent joints and a small, shuffling gait with a slightly forward bent upper body (therefore often falling forward) as a sign of instability
• general movement stiffness
• in later stages of the disease: shrinking font, loss of facial expressions, swallowing problems

Additional complaints are:

• depressions
• sleep problems
• constipation
• olfactory disorder, including loss of smell
• muscle and joint pain, particularly in the shoulder girdle
• later on: lack of joy, fears, dementia, excessive salivation, bladder emptying disorder

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The treatment of Parkinson's disease at avi

Die comprehensive therapy In AVI, Parkinson's syndrome begins with the early diagnosis. Medical measures based on this are:

• Preparation of an anamnesis
• Orientative neurological examinations of gait, certain movement processes and reflexes
• in hospital also: MRI or CT to rule out other diseases

The diagnosis is followed by drug treatment. This includes preparations which:

• contain the precursor of dopamine and thus counteract a deficiency
• Act like dopamine
• inhibit the breakdown of dopamine (MAO inhibitors)
• alleviate muscle tremors (beta blockers)
• work against depression, dementia and psychotic episodes (antidepressants, antidementives and antipsychotics)

Accompanying long-term use of the preparations regular laboratory checks, around the origin exclude possible side effects at an early stage.

Drug treatment is also provided by the following measures supports:

• physiotherapy
• speech therapy
• occupational therapy
• Music and art therapy

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