Parkinson's disease natural therapy
Parkinson's disease is a serious, debilitating degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the motor skills, speech, and other body functions. Parkinson's is characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor of hands, feet, and head, and a slowing of physical movement.
Parkinson's disease is often referred to as idiopathic Parkinson's disease, which simply means a disease that has no known specific cause. Although there have been some studies that indicate a possible connection to exposure to toxins or head injury, nothing conclusive has been determined.
Parkinson's affects body movement , mood, behavior,and thinking. From one patient to another, individual symptoms and disease progression may be quite different, yet the basic effects are characteristic of the disease.
Cause and prognosis:
The symptoms are caused by a decrease in the stimulation of the motor cortex of the brain. Parkinson's disease is chronic and progressive.
Parkinson's disease symptoms include the following:
Tremors of limbs
Rigidity
Stooped posture
Posture instability
Shuffling gait with decreased arm swing
Difficulty turning of the head independently from the body
Soft or hoarse speech
Of course as the it progresses, the symptoms become more exaggerated.
Normal Parkinson's treatment involves various drugs to control the symptoms as well as to try to slow the progression of the disease. Vitamin C and vitamin E in large doses are commonly used by patients in order to theoretically lessen the cell damage that occurs in Parkinson's. The L-tyrosine was shown to relieve an average of 70% of symptoms. An interesting study shows that there are fewer cases of the disease in people with elevated uremic acid levels. This is basically gout conditions.
In addition,natural treatments such as physical therapy, wellness maintenance programs, exercise, and nutrition programs are prescribed and are very effective. There are several other natural treatments available for Parkinson's sufferers that many hold in high esteem.