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About Parkinson’s DiseaseAfflicts people regardless of gender, race, background, behaviour, lifestyle or geographic area!Statistically one person in every 200 people will be diagnosed with this disease in their lifetime. Looking on the total population, 1-2 % of the inhabitants in a country have it. Parkinson’s disease is caused by the failure of a group of nerve cells in the brain to produce adequate amounts of a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine is necessary for smooth, coordinated movement and muscle relaxation. Dopamine is one of about three hundred chemicals working for adjacent brain functions!
The age at diagnosis is 10% under 40 years; 20% between 40 and 49 years; 40% between 50 and 59 years; 20% between 60 and 69 years and 10% at 70 or above. We don’t yet know the final answers to either cause or final cure for PDA. However, it is likely that we soon will get the so longed for answers from one of all the laboratories around the world where dedicated and highly skilled research staff are doing their utmost. This belief in the future is strengthened by the fact that reports of barrier breaking results are coming at shorter and shorter intervals. Parkinson´s is “individualâ€. That means that each person’s pattern of symptoms is unique. Some people have only one or two of the main symptoms. Others may have all major symptoms in varying degrees of severity. The basic part of Parkinson´s consists of three main symptoms: first shaking of one or more parts of the body, second muscular rigidity and third difficulty in initiating movements. This can be successfully treated with modern medicines, skilled neurologists and cross functional teams. The secondary area covers such common problems as depression, withdrawal, disturbances of speech, spinal and muscular complications etc. Or in other words all that can occur as a consequence of the basic part of Parkinsons´s.
Further to accept the situation as a reality in order to have it as a base for active search for the possibilities rather than the difficulties of life. |
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