Parkinson Disease

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Parkinson Disease

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Introduction
Parkinson disease is the disorder in the nervous system that affects the movement in
the body of person. The symptoms of this disease start slowly. Sometimes, it starts with the
barely noticeable vibration in the one hand of person. Tremor is more common but the
disorder tends to cause the stiffness. In the prior stage of this disease, person faces the slow or
no expression. Another symptom of this disease is that the arms of person do not swing when
he or she walk. The speech of the person becomes slurred or soft. However, this disease is not
able to cured. Meditation can however help in improving this disease. Doctors also suggest
regulating some of the region of the brain and improving these symptoms (Poewe et al,
2017).
Symptoms of Parkinson disease
The symptoms of this disease can be varied for each person. The symptoms of this disease
can begin on one part of the body. However, the signs and symptoms of Parkinson includes
following:
 Slowed movement: over the passage of time, Parkinson disease can slow down the
movement. It even makes the simple task difficult for the person. When a person walks, this
disease makes the steps shorter when a person walks. It is also difficult for the person to get
out of the chair. Person also dragging the feet when it tries to walk.
 Tremor: shaking or Tremor starts in the limb often in the finger or hand. In this
disease, hand might also tremor when it is in the condition of rest (Aarsland et al, 2017).
 Rigid Muscles: Muscle rigorousness may also occur in any of the part of the body. It
also becomes painful at a time and can limit the person to move.

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 Loss of automatic movements: Person also decreases their capability to perform some
of the unconscious movements such as smiling, blinking, swinging of arms at the time of
walking.
 Impaired balance and postures: in the symptoms of this disease, person also started
facing problem in balancing their body.
 In addition to this, posture also stops.
 Changes in speech: At this time, person also started speaking quickly, softly or
hesitates sometimes before started any conversation (Dickson, 2018).
 Changes in writing: Person also face problems while writing. Writing also started
becoming small.
 Person started thinking difficulties as well as experiences the dementia that is
cognitive problems. However, this symptom usually occurs at the after stages of the
Parkinson disease.
 Started facing difficulties with the swallowing. It might also possible that saliva get
accumulated in the mouth due to slowing down of swallowing.
 Person started facing depression and it happens sometime in the starting stages. By
getting the treatment of the Parkinson disease, it becomes easy to handle some other
challenge of Parkinson disease.
 Person who is facing Parkinson disease started facing sleeping problems such as
waking frequently in the whole night or wake up early in the morning or fall asleep in the
day.
 Parkinson disease also causes several bladder problems. In this situation, it is also
unable for the person to control its urine.
 Due to the slower digestive act, this disease also develops the constipation.