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Click on the above link for an Excellent and comprehensive explanation of the DBS surgery - UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California.
Know however, DBS probably won't improve his symptoms beyond his best results from past drug therapy. DBS can virtually eliminate medication side effects, says Philip Starr, a neurosurgeon who specializes in movement disorders at the University of California, San Francisco: "They basically have no more motor fluctuations and no dyskinesia." That's partly because they can cut back on medicine: With STN stimulation on both sides of the brain, he says, patients decrease their doses of levodopa and dopamine agonists by about half, on average.
Despite these caveats, many patients hope that these problems will get better and end up disappointed, says Starr.
Deep Brain Stimulation doesn't seem to slow Parkinson's disease, patients did show some decline in functioning ability as their disorder progressed. However, after five years, compared with when patients were off medication, neurostimulation still improved motor symptoms by around 50 percent.
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https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/12/03/Parkinsons-treatment-may-affect-ability-to-swim/2161575379726/
Some Parkinson's patients who have a deep brain stimulation device implanted to control their symptoms have reported an odd side effect -- they lost the ability to swim.
Researchers report on the cases of nine patients who were still good swimmers even after they were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. After they had deep brain stimulation surgery, their Parkinson's symptoms improved, but they lost their swimming skills.
The study was published online Nov. 27 in the journal Neurology.
03 December 2019
http://neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/index.php/movement_disorders_parkinsons.html
Click on the above link for an Excellent and comprehensive explanation of the DBS surgery - UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California.
Know however, DBS probably won't improve his symptoms beyond his best results from past drug therapy. DBS can virtually eliminate medication side effects, says Philip Starr, a neurosurgeon who specializes in movement disorders at the University of California, San Francisco: "They basically have no more motor fluctuations and no dyskinesia." That's partly because they can cut back on medicine: With STN stimulation on both sides of the brain, he says, patients decrease their doses of levodopa and dopamine agonists by about half, on average.
- Be advised that neurostimulation doesn't effectively treat troubles with
- speech,
- balance,
- freezing of gait,
- or cognitive dysfunction
Despite these caveats, many patients hope that these problems will get better and end up disappointed, says Starr.
Deep Brain Stimulation doesn't seem to slow Parkinson's disease, patients did show some decline in functioning ability as their disorder progressed. However, after five years, compared with when patients were off medication, neurostimulation still improved motor symptoms by around 50 percent.
Click also on this link for possible surgical risks of DBS.
- - - = - = - = - - - -= = = = - = = - = - =
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/12/03/Parkinsons-treatment-may-affect-ability-to-swim/2161575379726/
Some Parkinson's patients who have a deep brain stimulation device implanted to control their symptoms have reported an odd side effect -- they lost the ability to swim.
Researchers report on the cases of nine patients who were still good swimmers even after they were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. After they had deep brain stimulation surgery, their Parkinson's symptoms improved, but they lost their swimming skills.
The study was published online Nov. 27 in the journal Neurology.
03 December 2019