It is the thing which most of us dread. Is it genetic or environmental? Researchers can't agree.
November 2011
" I don't want to worry you … but I think there's something wrong with me. Something serious. "
When we make our marriage vows, “in sickness and in health”, we don't expect it to be sooner rather than later - sooner being aged 57.
We made an appointment with our doctor and everything moved quickly from there.
What had alerted my husband?
When he combed his hair, his hand wouldn't move to the left-hand side of his head. When he brushed his teeth, his hand stopped mid-way and wouldn't move over to clean his left side teeth.
His handwriting had become very small and illegible.
I was immediately proactive. When he made his announcement, I went into the kitchen and got him some Evening Primrose Oil, and Vitamins. I assumed he had MS or a brain tumour.
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It is all incurable at the moment
The comment below on July 18, 2019, intrigues me.
Might those who have no Parkinson symptoms apart Parkinson-like gait have something ameliorable, curable or incurable?
The gait of Parkinson's sufferers is distinctive, as it involves leaning forward and making a shuffling movement rather than walking with the heel down. What this research showed is that low back pain and the conditions that generate it might have a localised neurological origin in the lumbar region which produces symptoms resembling the Parkinson's gait. Some people who walk with a Parkinson's gait have back problems but no other symptoms.
Gosh what a waste of research money ! How very annoying.
How can lower back pain movement be associated with Parkinson's movement ? There is no comparison. Parkinson' s patients don't have any lower back pain that is part of Parkinson 's disease. ..why would they ? I don't know any Parkinson patient who has symptoms like you describe and my mother in law and also my sister in law's father in law had it too. Back pain would come from stooped shoulders so upper back not lower back. Any lower back pain would be some other cause.
TEST …. and warning
If someone holds both hands in front of them with thumb tops touching each other and other fingers in a c shape and reverse c shape above thumbs ...then rapidly hit the thumbs with the fingers rapidly up and down , quick as you can. IF ….. the fingers of one hand hit the thumbs at a much slower rate than the other hand, then get to the doctor ASAP.
Parkinson's gait is caused by the placement of the toes and heel on the floor and is totally distinctive from lower back pain movement.
Sometimes chronic lower back pain produces symptoms in one's gait closely resembling Parkinson's. Look up this article, What if low back pain is the most common Parkinsonism in the world? It is an academic paper by Jacobs, Henry and Horak which argues that gait difficulties associated with low back pain may be have a partly neurological origin and therefore produce symptoms similar to the neurologically caused Parkinson's disease.
The paper argues that low back pain is to be distinguished from Parkinson's by its specific location. Symptoms in other parts of the body are absent.
The neuro physiotherapy is doing an amazing job on helping my husband's posture, balance and coordination. he has had 2 sessions.
Try neuro physio therapy if you have Parkinson's Disease. It is life changing.
Thank you for the addition!
The neuro physiotherapy comment is added above.
What a lovely thing to say, ty.
It has taken me 8 years to get so knowledgeable. My aim here is to give some information to help others so they don't have to spend 8 years getting it right.
I did however forget Neuro -physiotherapy and I am going to add a paragraph above.
I wish you and your husband all the best. Not everyone is lucky to have a loving partner at their side in hard times. These degenerative diseases are hard on everyone in so many ways.
As for exercise, most of us should do more. You and your husband are quite an inspiration :)