April 11th is World Parkinson’s Awareness Day. The condition affects approximately 4 million people worldwide, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). The number represents 1% of the world’s population aged 65 and over. In Brazil alone, there are 200,000 people who suffer from the disease.
Parkinson’s symptoms
Contrary to popular belief, not all patients with Parkinson’s have tremors. Who explains it is Dr. Guilherme Torezani, coordinator of cerebrovascular diseases at Hospital Icaraí and coordinator of Neurology at Hospital e Clínica de São Gonçalo.
But when present, the symptom occurs in one of the limbs at rest and in the extremities of the body. The main symptoms of the disease are, in fact, muscle stiffness and slowness in movements – in addition to progressive loss of balance (postural instability).
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