for my husband

[eletta]

I find for solutions every kind in P.D.

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Parkinson’s Guidelines

Pt.1 ~ youtube.com/watch?v=TtM-aP9...(Not working as expected?)

About the Video:

Experts in Parkinson's Disease have revised the guidelines for diagnosing and treating the disease in order to help people receive the best care. In this two-part program, Dr. William Weiner, the Parkinson's Disease specialist who was lead author of the guidelines, explains the latest information about Parkinson's Disease along with what changes were made to the treatment guidelines and why.

Specific topics covered in part one of this two-part program include:

Parkinson's symptoms

Diagnosing Parkinson's disease

Progression of Parkinson's disease

Medications - Levodopa

Drugs for motor fluctuations

About the Expert:

Dr. William Weiner is the chief of neurology at the University of Maryland Medical Center where he directs the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center. He is also professor and chairman of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Related Links:

Parkinsons Disease Guidelines (Part 2)

youtube.com/watch?v=PWuvJyM...(Not working as expected?)

About the Video:

Experts in Parkinson's Disease have revised the guidelines for diagnosing and treating the disease in order to help people receive the best care. In this two-part program with Dr. William Weiner, the Parkinson's Disease specialist who was lead author of the guidelines, explains the latest information about Parkinson's Disease along with what changes were made to the treatment guidelines and why.

Specific topics covered in part two of this two-part program include:

Deep brain stimulation

Complementary therapies

Benefits of exercise

Physical / speech therapy

Emotional effects of Parkinson's disease

Depression / anxiety

Mental / cognitive changes

Clinical trials

Future research - stem cells

Maryland Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center

umm.edu/programs/parkinsons

The Facts About Parkinson's Disease

umm.edu/programs/parkinsons...

New Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guidelines

umm.edu/news/releases/pdg.htm

[eletta in reply to Hidden]

Molte grazie ! io desidero vedere soluzioni diverse dal mio paese,che è Italia. A mio marito solo dopo dieci anni di P.D. hanno detto di fare riabilitazione fisica! solo medicine ,medicine , medicine......

[Madzy in reply to eletta]

Rihabilazione fysica e molto importante. En Italia existecuna clinica especialmente per questo per Parkinson . Si queri voi a chercare il noMe

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walk four miles 3x per week

drink 2 cups water in morning and 2 cups in evening to prevent constipation

[JohnPepper]

Hi eletta. If you could get someone to help you ask your question in English, I and many others will try to help you.

John

[kikla21 in reply to JohnPepper]

She has said . "Thanks a lot! I want to see different solutions from my country , which is Italian . My husband only after ten years of P.D. said they do physical rehabilitation ! only medicine , medicine , medicine ....."

Krislyn

[JohnPepper]

Hi Everyone. All this information on the treatment of Pd makes no mention at all of the findings of Dr Beth Fisher and Dr Michael Zigmond, which were reported at the 1st World Parkinson's Congress held in Washington in 2006 (Nine years ago). It is as if NOBODY NOTICED THIS EVENT!

We were told at that meeting that when we do fast walking, our brains produce a chemical called GDNF (Glial Derived Neurotrophic Factor). Glial cells are brain cells and I think that they are the ones that produce dopamine. This GDNF is the body's own repair kit! trophic means repair.

The fact that we produce our own repair kit when we do fast walking should have got to every doctor and patient around the world in no time at all! But it hasn't! In fact nobody wants to even talk about it.

I can understand the pharmaceutical industry not wanting anybody to talk about it. They donate a lot of money every year to Parkinson's Support organizations all over the world, so I can understand them not being able to talk about this, but I cannot understand the neurologists not talking about it!

I know that if all the Pd patients throughout the world got better, as I have, and stopped needing to see their doctors and stopped taking any Pd medication, as I have, it would affect their income quite considerably, but they are professional people and it is their undertaking to help their patients. But I don't know of anyone who has been told specifically to start doing fast walking by their neurologist. Yes, some doctors tell their patients to do exercise, but most exercises do nothing to produce GDNF in the brain.

How many more years do we have to wait before all this changes? Dr Doidge, in his new book, "The Brain's Way of Healing" tells us, in no uncertain terms how the plasticity of the brain makes all this possible. He has examined me and my Pd history and has written a whole long chapter on my way of overcoming my Pd problems. I am prepared to talk to any group anywhere, free of charge, but the costs of getting me there and my accommodation would have to be carried by those wanting to see me demonstrate how I went about achieving this impossible goal.

Wake up everybody. Medication does nothing to reverse our Pd symptoms but fast walking does!

Medication gives us side effects that are worse than the Pd itself. Why are we doing this to ourselves when we now know that there is a way to overcome our Pd symptoms?

John Pepper