**Physiotherapy for Parkinson's disease** helps improve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease and strengthens motor skills and increases flexibility.... Physiotherapy Parkinson's helps people with Parkinson's to improve their daily quality of life in addition to strengthening their movement abilities. Physiotherapy exercises also help Parkinson's disease with strength, endurance, flexibility and imbalance... This article from Shiraz Physiotherapy Clinic website introduces this disease and its symptoms. Dopamine is a chemical that is responsible for transmitting messages around the brain. For example, when a part of your body starts to itch, dopamine sends the message to the specialist during the treatment session. Training exercises based on the patient's condition.** Symptoms of Parkinson's disease The symptoms of Parkinson's disease appear gradually and are often ignored.. In this way, it is better to watch out for the symptoms mentioned below... The main symptoms of Parkinson's are: - Trembling - Body stiffness - Slowness in walking - Imbalance in walking Secondary symptoms of Parkinson's disease include: - Anxiety - Depression - Dementia - Cognitive impairment - Sleep behavior disorder - Loss of sense of smell The cause of Parkinson's disease So far, there is no known cause of Parkinson's disease... Of course, it is assumed that genetic, hereditary and environmental factors are involved in this disease... Some genes are also related to this disease... Stages of Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease consists of 5 stages, which will be explained below.... 1.... In the first stage of Parkinson's disease, the symptoms are very mild and will not have much impact on a person's life and daily activities.... 2.... In the second stage, the symptoms intensify and daily activities become more difficult for the person, and even doing a simple task takes a long time, which is known as the middle stage of this disease.... Parkinson's is aggravated and the patient performs activities. In the fourth stage of the disease, the symptoms become severe and the patient needs help in carrying out daily activities and walking. An experienced neurologist diagnoses this disease well using advanced equipment. There is no special test to diagnose this disease. Parkinson's usually affects people over the age of 60... but there are exceptions and some people get this disease at the age of 40 and even less... Read more: Physiotherapy and rehabilitation of the elderly in Shiraz What is parkinsonism? Parkinsonism refers to a wide range of movement disorders that show symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease. Most people who suffer from Parkinsonism have idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's disease or idiopathic parkinsonism is the most common type of Parkinson's. Corticobasal degeneration - Dementia with Lewy bodies - Drug-induced parkinsonism - Tremor or essential tremor - Multiple system atrophy or multiple system weakening - Progressive supranuclear palsy - Atherosclerotic parkinsonism Parkinson's treatment in Shiraz Currently, there is no specific treatment for Parkinson's disease... but drug treatment, physical therapy, and in some cases surgery will be effective... Although medication does not completely cure Parkinson's disease, it will be very effective in relieving the symptoms caused by this disease.... ### Physiotherapy The effectiveness of physiotherapy for Parkinson's disease has been proven.... Physiotherapy will be effective in improving movement problems, flexibility, body posture and balance.... Physiotherapy helps to maintain the patient's mobility and balance, and as a result, it will be effective in maintaining the patient's independence.... Physiotherapy exercises for Parkinson's disease.. ### Surgery Surgery is the last option for treating Parkinson's disease.. Surgery is prescribed only if the person's disease is very advanced and motor symptoms are uncontrollable. Three types of surgery are recommended for the treatment of Parkinson's disease: #### Deep brain stimulation This method is prescribed when the disease does not respond to any of the methods and drugs. In this procedure, the surgeon places electrodes in the patient's brain to control the impulses that lead to Parkinson's. In this method, the surgeon removes a small part of the globus pallidus... After the pallidotomy surgery, the patient suffers from imbalance and stiffness of the body parts and the symptoms are not so great. #### Thalomotomy Thalomotomy surgery reduces the tremors of the patient's limbs. In this surgery, a part of the thalamus (a part of the brain) is removed. Myths about Parkinson's disease There are many misconceptions about Parkinson's disease that we mention in this section... - **Parkinson is a movement disorder:** Parkinson's disease has movement and non-movement symptoms such as tremors, balance disorder, depression, sleep behavior disorder, etc.- ** Limb tremor is one of the main symptoms of Parkinson's and the symptoms of each Parkinson's patient are different. They may experience different symptoms.. - **Parkinson's disease is treatable:** There is no known cure for Parkinson's disease so far... However, some medications and physical therapy exercises help manage and control the symptoms caused by this disease... - **Only old people get Parkinson's disease:** This belief is completely wrong... Although Parkinson's disease affects people over 60 years of age, it is also seen in many people over 60 years of age. to be 40's and teenagers.. it has been...