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Everything you need to know about Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s orParkinson’s diseaseis a neurodegenerative disease caused by damage of unclear cause in one part of your brain. Small population of neurons in the brainstem for some reason start to die, which causes lack of dopamine in your brain and causes secondary symptoms of the disease. We still don’t know exactly what causes the Parkinson’s disease, but we identified multiple factors which might be contributing to the disease. Some of them are genetical some of them are and their own mental. Typicalsymptoms of Parkinson’s diseaseis onset of a tremor of upper limbs on one side, also slowness in movements and also rigidity of your muscles. You might have also problems with stability, walking difficulties and multiple other problems related to the disease. The initial treatment option is supplementation of dopamine in your brain with so called L-DOPA. If, this treatment is insufficient. We have various other advanced options including neurostimulation or apo-morphine treatment to offer.PKG or the Parkinson’s cannot take graph, is a small device which you will wear on your wrist, which will monitor your movements, it monitors movement problems caused by the Parkinson’s disease. That means mainly slowness in the movements, also tremor on your limbs. It also monitors negative side effects of medications used in Parkinson’s disease such as dyskinesia. The information helps us to adjust your medication to get just the best results from the drugs used.