Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's disease

Introduction

The world has changed drastically in the last decade or so. Various mysteries in the field of science that have puzzled and troubled men for centuries were solved successfully in this decade. The field of medicine has progressed a great deal too. Infinite no of helpful medicine and even drugs have been created to deal with many ambiguous health related issues. However, there are still a number of mysteries to be solved. Even after many years of research, test and experimentation, many diseases still hold on to the status of being incurable. One of such disease is Parkinson's disease. The researches, the experiments, the theories that have been conducted from many years have all failed to prove anything. This fact has been emphasized by many professional at many occasions. Moreover, the position of media is also very clear in this stance and at many occasions media has openly discussed inadequate treatment procedures that exists for the cure of the victims of Parkinson disease.

Discussion

Parkinson's disease is a disorder that is responsible for ceasing one's body movement. It is basically a progressive form of sickness that does not show any sudden sign of its attack. The initial signs of Parkinson's disease include arms of an individual not showing any fluent movements while walking, rigidness of features and minimal or no face expression, and slow and stuttered speech.

In some cases surgery is proposed by the doctors and surgeons in order to bring a little improvement in the healing process. In other cases, medication is prescribed. However, the Parkinson's disease by nature is incurable and therefore cannot be treated. For many years now, the scientists in the pharmaceutical companies and departments have been trying to find perfect recipe for the perfect medicine for the cure of the disease. However, except for providing temporary relief to the victims, the disease continues to take many lives yearly (Gaser, 2006).

Before Parkinson's intervention, any death would be classified under the name of paralysis, if the symptoms included ceasing of the movements of the body parts and eventually the whole body. However, Parkinson essay in 1817, “Essay on the shaking palsy” change the course of the way the disease was treated and also gives a base to start the research for the cure of the disease. Unfortunately, at this time, media did not came into being. Hence, widespread awareness about the symptoms and causes of the disease was not really possible and convenient.

During the early and mid 19th century some medicine professionals proposed some remedies. For example, a few including Erb and Charcoat proposed the idea of using the plant of belladona as a remedy medicine. Unfortunately, no such medicines form any of the plants or herbs helped in creating a perfect medicine for the curing purposes. Later on, for a very long time period, the only possible solutions to the treatment of the diseases were surgery and a drug called Anticholinergics was used. The surgical procedures were tried and ...