Treatment of Parkinson's Disease in Israel

Parkinson's disease is a neurological disease characterized by a chronic and progressive course with motor impairment. Parkinson's disease is common, as a rule, among the male population mainly at the age of 60 years.

Treatment of Parkinson's Disease in Israel - Risk Factors

Parkinson's disease causes a violation of the synthesis of dopamine - a hormone, the function of which is the transmission of impulses within the brain. This, in turn, changes the cells that are responsible for motor activity. This disease can be inherited. There are also other reasons provoking the development of this pathology: encephalitis, drugs, excessive intake of drugs, atherosclerosis of the brain vessels.

Treatment of Parkinson's Disease in Israel - Symptoms

The onset of Parkinson's disease is characterized by minor signs. Diagnose irritability, difficulty getting up from the chair, general weakness, trembling handwriting, a shaky gait, unreasonable depression. The patient discovers that he loses thoughts, misses words in sentences. The early phase can last long enough.

Later, in the process of developing Parkinson's disease, the facial expressiveness diminishes - it starts to look more like a mask, movements become slower during walking, eating. There are severe difficulties during shaving, brushing teeth, writing, etc. Diagnosed speech problems. A distinctive feature is that slow movements can suddenly change quickly. There are difficulties to get up from the chair, turn in bed. The mobility of the pharyngeal muscles decreases, this leads to rare swallowing movements, which causes drooling. Later, a tremor is noted, as a result of this, the problem is to keep things, read, etc.

Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease includes, as a rule, the supervision of a doctor, the analysis of symptoms, the collection of anamnesis.

Treatment of Parkinson's Disease in Israel

In the treatment of Parkinson's disease in Israel, we can distinguish: treatment of early disease and late. The choice of treatment at an early stage depends on the state of cognitive functions, the age of the patient, the degree of symptomatology.

Drug therapy in Israeli clinics is prescribed in cases when the symptoms of this pathology interfere with normal life. At the initial stages of the disease, young patients are prescribed treatment with one or more drugs, among which are: ADR group preparations, MAO-B inhibitors, anticholinergics or amantadine. After 70 years of age, patients with cognitive impairment are prescribed a drug of levodopa, treatment with anticholinergics, amantadines and ADRs are performed carefully because of the risk of developing hallucinations.

The drug Levodopa has an effective effect on the patient, eliminating the clinical manifestations of Parkinson's disease. It is aimed at producing dopamine, reducing its deficiency. The greatest effect of levodopa has on rigidity and general slowness of movements, partly disappears tremor, impaired coordination persists. The intake of levodopa has certain side effects: a decrease in pressure, involuntary movements, vomiting, nausea, anxiety, sometimes mental confusion. When a patient stops taking Levodopa, the symptoms return, and if the drug is abruptly discontinued after prolonged treatment, the manifestations of the disease are significantly increased.

Also at an early stage of the disease can be used such methods of treatment as therapeutic physical therapy, psychotherapy. Necessary conditions are full sleep and moderate working conditions.

Before the advent of Levodopa, surgical intervention in the treatment of Parkinson's disease was carried out quite often. Now basically the surgical method of treatment is prescribed to patients in the late stages of the disease and with low effectiveness of treatment with medicines.

In the treatment of Parkinson's disease in Israel, the following types of surgical operations are carried out:

1. Stereotactic destruction of some groups of nuclei of the thalamus, subthalamic region, pale sphere.

2. The method "Deep Brain Stimulation" - a method of stimulation of the brain. A neurostimulator is injected, which conducts electrical impulses into the brain, causing high-frequency irritation, contributing to the improvement of the condition. This procedure makes it possible to reduce the intake of medications and return the patient to a full life.

3. In the framework of the experiment, another method of surgical intervention is performed - the method of implantation of stem cells.