In this inspiring video, the wife of Bodiul Alam shares their journey through a challenging battle with Parkinson's disease. For 12 ...

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Journey to Recovery: Overcoming Parkinson&#39;s Disease

[Music] wife husbande foree fore I am Dr so we run the movement disorder program here in narana health and uh especially we offer this deep brain stimulation for patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders like distonia and others so deep brain stimulation is a very useful tool to help the Parkinson's patients for improving their quality of life but this is an area which has very less uh awareness uh the main intention why I would like to communicate this thing to the patients as well as their caregivers is that this is a very underutilized tool so provided uh we have the right patient selections this uh procedure gives very tremendous benefit to the patients with Parkinson's disease especially it helps them to overcome their uh symptoms which are uh very disabling like patients experience motor fluctuations which means that uh the effect of the medicine lasts for a very short amount of time like there are patients who say that their medicine either works for 1 hour or even it doesn't work for even 1 hour hour so they experience this fluctuations throughout the day and they lose their confidence in going out of house or doing their activities because their uh routine becomes very unpredictable because they cannot predict how long they'll be fine uh and uh so this makes them literally to be confined to home affects their self-confidence and they uh they lose the interest in their routine activities as well as in their profession and causing a lot of burden to their caregivers uh there are many young patients who uh even quit their active job uh for just this reason and also in addition to this there are some side effects of the medications like discinesia which are reasonably like unavoidable because the the patients need to take the medicines to have some strength but then this comes as a uh package along with that uh strength so the patients are facing uh problems both in the medication on phase as well as the off phase so the the quality of life becomes miserable uh in relatively Advanced Parkinson's disease uh youngsters especially there is a additional burden of having uh these things affecting their earning capacity so in generally 60 plus patients are retired so then at least it doesn't affect their uh profession but when it when the Parkinson disease affects the youngsters so what we call as young onset Parkinson's disease or early onset Parkinson's disease which is usually when the Parkinson's disease affects the people who are below 40 or even below 50 years so in this situation it has a additional issue of affecting their profession so these are the patients who will benefit a lot by undergoing de brain stimulation at the right point of time where they can get rid of their motor fluctuations discinesia disabling Tremors to a very significant extent as uh in the video of this patient you can see that uh he has almost uh very remarkable benefit in his quality of life uh because these two aspects which is the fluctuations as well as the discinesia got settled so this surgery will affect uh the quality of life tremendously for all these patients so I urge all the Parkinson's patients two things one is uh to identify the symptoms fast and to move uh or consult people who are specialized in treating Parkinson's disease which is usually a movement disorder expert and the second thing is that when there is when the surgeon or the treating movement disorder specialist offers them the surgical option let them them know let them know the pros and cons of the surgery and not shy away from uh surgery if if this The Specialist is telling them that they are likely to benefit from it because uh the real benefit they know only after the surgery or on seeeing patients who have done such uh remarkable recovery so uh I urge patients to take care through a well structured uh program movement disorder program because uh they will be offered all the things which which they need to be offered [Music] [Music]

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