Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale

Carpal tunnel syndrome affects the hand and harm, causing numbness, tingling, and a variety of other symptoms. It is caused by a pinched nerve in the wrist. Many factors can contribute to carpal tunnel syndrome such as the anatomy of the wrist, other underlying health problems, and possibly patters of hand use. The carpal tunnel, a narrow passage way that protects a main hand nerve - the median nerve, is located on the palm side of the wrist. Compression of that nerve causes numbness, tingling,…

Neurodegenerative diseases are distinguished by progressive neuronal cell loss with clear patterns in disparate disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson and Huntington’s. They are responsible for around 4% of fatalities worldwide and 5% of disability-adjusted life years from a non-communicable disease (NCD). Neurodegenerative disorders are not only caused by genetics but protein misfolding disorders and protein degradation by the proteasome system. These disorders continue to increase as well as…

Parkinson’s disease is defined as a, “progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement” (Huether & McCance, 2012). Parkinson’s can be further divided among two categories, which include primary and secondary. Primary Parkinson’s is more common among men and usually is seen to begin after 40 years of age with an increasing risk after 60 years of age. The cause of primary Parkinson’s is still unknown, but several genes have been identified as contributing factors in addition to…

receptors. In the acquired immunity process, an immune cell undergoes specialization so that it can produce antibodies that correlate to foreign threats that can enter the body. Sometimes, this process malfunctions, and this creates an autoimmune disease. In this case, antibodies are produced that attack the acetylcholine receptors, and this leads to a decrease of acetylcholine receptors (Fambrough et. al, 1973). Since the neurons are not effectively recognizing the acetylcholine, it causes the…

PARKINSON’S DISEASE Parkinson’s is a neurological disease that carries an onset of chronic and progressive movement disorder. Meaning the results produced by Parkinson’s will continue and worsen throughout time. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (2014) have verified that, there are no known causes of Parkinson’s disease, researchers and scientists have accumulated statistics that leads to genetics and environmental factors that affect Parkinson’s disease. Such as,…

Huntington disease (HD) or HD chorea is progressive neurodegenerative autosomal dominant disease that is defined by the motor, behavioral, and cognitive symptoms that influence “about one in ten thousand people in the western hemispheres” (Novak et al. 234). HD chorea is often identified by the movement difficulties that it causes, and “In fact, when HD was first discovered it was called Huntington’s chorea, as a reference to the uncontrollable, dance-like movement that is common among people…

Parkinson’s disease By: Arielle Kim Approximately ten million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s disease, a chronic and progressive neurological disorder that affects the way you move. This disease can span from a couple years to one’s entire lifetime, worsening as time progresses. Parkinson’s is typically found from the age 60 and onward, but it can also affect people of younger ages. Parkinson’s disease has many symptoms that affect the human body and mind, but the five most recognizable…

Non-Occupational Risk Factors Associated With Tremor Beyond occupational risk factors associated with tremor, research indicates several non-occupational factors are also associated with increased risk for tremor. Some of these factors include gender, age, alcohol, use of tobacco, and emotional stress. Each of these factors is explored in the paragraphs below. Gender According to several studies, most women affected with ET have their head and voice more significantly affected than any other…

Parkinson’s disease was named after an English physician, named Dr, James Parkinson. At first he called the disease “Shaking Palsy”. Soon it was named after the doctor as Parkinson’s disease. In the deep parts of the brain, there is a collection of nerve cells that help control movement. This is known as the basal ganglia. For a person with Parkinson’s disease these nerve cells are damaged and don’t work as well as they should. Some ideas experts have is that low dopamine causes the symptoms of…

early as 30 years old. It is not being old to suffer this condition but because it is a disease, it is acquired due to some factors. The possible cause of the early onset of dementia is strongly linked with the genes or it’s simply hereditary. Dementia is a general term used to describe when a person experienced…