Does your Parkinson's disease need surgery? Mainly judge from these 4 aspects

Does your Parkinson's disease need surgery? Mainly judge from these 4 aspects

Patients often consult about Parkinson's surgery in the outpatient clinic. Now let's summarize it for everyone. Whether Parkinson's patients need surgery can be comprehensively judged from the following aspects:

1. The severity of the disease;

2. Medication status;

3. The patient's physical health;

4. The wishes of the patient and his family.

1. The severity of the disease

We all know that Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disease. As people age, the symptoms become more and more numerous and complex. Generally speaking, early patients are treated with medication, but for some patients, Parkinson's disease has a greater impact on them even after one or two years of diagnosis. Whole body shaking or stiffness limits their daily life and work.

2. Drug treatment

After being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, some patients can achieve relatively good results by taking the correct medications. However, some patients have experienced an increasing number of medication types, decreased drug efficacy, and shorter and shorter medication maintenance time. Some patients even have serious side effects, such as on-off phenomenon, dyskinesia, end-of-dose phenomenon, etc., and cannot control symptoms well when adjusting the dosage or type of medication.

3. Patient's physical health

Parkinson's disease is common in middle-aged and elderly people. Common symptoms are resting tremor, bradykinesia, muscle rigidity, and postural balance disorders. If the patient does not have severe movement disorders or dementia, muscle atrophy will occur.

4. Wishes of the patient and family members

After treatment, preoperative examination and evaluation, if the patient is suitable for surgery, the patient and family members will be willing to undergo surgical treatment.

Wu Ningtao, deputy chief physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at Changsha Yuxiang Hospital , said: Whether Parkinson's disease is treated with drugs or surgery, it is based on alleviating Parkinson's symptoms and improving the patient's quality of life. As for whether surgery can be performed, it is recommended that patients go to the hospital for a specific evaluation.

Hunan Medical Chat Special Author: Wu Ningtao, Department of Neurosurgery, Changsha Yuxiang Hospital

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(Edited by Wx)

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