Delhi doctors treating Parkinson’s with specialty care

Many people across the globe after crossing the ripe age of 50 find movement and motor activities increasingly difficult and in certain cases even painful. This is the first sign of the advent of Parkinson’s disease.

Parkinson’s is currently afflicting millions and is a major source of concern across the globe.  According to one source, in the USA alone there are well over ten million patients who are suffering from this dreaded disease. They are at varying stages of the ailment and undergoing treatment.

India is no exception and has its share of people who obviously find their limbs shaking while performing the simplest of tasks, rigidity and slowness in movement as well as difficulty in walking and gait. These are, of course, the early and sure shot symptoms of Parkinson’s.

Parkinson’s specialists in Delhi and elsewhere in the country where this particular neurological disease is gradually assuming alarming scale are doing an impressive job of tackling this menace. Slowly but surely many young people are also increasingly becoming victims of this serious enough disease. Besides Parkinson’s, neurologists in Delhi also find themselves pretty busy what with numerous neurological disorders taking place.

Specialists and societies for treating Parkinson’s are there

Besides the specialists serving the field, the millions afflicted with Parkinson’s can also approach the  Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder Society that has its offices in Mumbai and can be contacted online. Also, you do have the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation of India, which is a charitable institution catering to the diverse and unique needs of those down with the disease as also educate the masses regarding the symptoms, cure and exercise related factors.

The disease also goes by the names of idiopathic or Primary Parkinsonism, hypo kinetic rigid syndrome (HRS), or paralysis agitans. Basically it is a condition wherein the patient suffers from a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that primarily affects the motor system.

This is why the initial symptoms are almost always difficulty in movement only.

Stages in the Parkinson’s disease

Broadly speaking, the ailment follows the Early Stage Parkinson’s; Middle Stage or Maintenance Stage Parkinson’s; Advanced Parkinson’s; and, the Care Giving Stage once the advanced stage is reached. This scenario is not much different from other neuro ailments as the Neurologist doctors Delhi would vouchsafe for readily.

Even though, largely speaking, it is not life-threatening; still it does result in some serious and worrisome enough conditions. These include besides the inability to move freely and flexibly, thinking and behavioural problems and in more advanced stages dementia. All this leads to depression and other related emotional, sleep and psychiatric problems.

The cure is of course there, but it is only early detection that will guarantee satisfactory recovery.

Parkinson’s specialists in Delhi and other regions are now neck deep in research that would one day lead to a lasting cure from PD.