Today is the 20th World Parkinson’s Disease Day, with the theme of “focus on Parkinson’s disease and work together for health”. The Department of Neurosurgery of Fuzhou forty-seven-six hospital recently held a large-scale science popularization and free clinic activity of “nerve regulation makes life no longer tremble” for Parkinson’s disease. & shy; About 50,000 Parkinson’s patients in Fujian & shy; On the morning of the 9th, the clinic had not started yet. A patient from the mountainous area of northern Fujian, Lao Liu (alias), was waiting at the gate of the venue accompanied by his son. In the meantime, Liu’s hands kept shaking. After the free clinic began, Liu took out a series of physical examinations and brain imaging results that he had done before. Yuan bangqing, the director of the Department of Neurosurgery, thought that Liu was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. & shy; It is reported that Parkinson’s disease, also known as vibration paralysis, is the most common central nervous system degeneration disease among middle-aged and elderly people. Currently, there are about 50,000 patients with Parkinson’s disease in Fujian province. “In today’s aging population, Parkinson’s disease is not only a long-term chronic torture of patients’ body and psychology, but also a more and more serious family burden and social burden.” Yuan bangqing said that the long-term pain and suffering, not only the chronic consumption of the body, but also the extreme depression and suffering of the patient’s mental mood. Family members should not only feed water and medicine, support walking, massage and fall asleep to take care of patients, but also relieve patients’ emotions. Usually, at least one family should be a full-time escort. For ordinary families, it is likely that one person is ill and the whole family is in trouble. & shy; Long incubation period has three symptoms & shy; Due to the long incubation period of Parkinson’s disease and the hidden early onset, many patients are easy to ignore at the early stage. Yuan bangqing said that at first, patients with Parkinson’s disease would feel poor energy, easy fatigue, sore muscles, a feel of general malaise, low work efficiency, and very slow and difficult to do very simple things. As the disease continues to develop, you will feel more inflexible limbs, sore legs, stiff muscles, uncontrollable trembling hands, and shrinking writing into a ball; Low voice, vague; Dull face, drooling, unable to communicate normally. Severe patients almost lose the ability to move. Standing up will be as motionless as the wax figure hunched back. Lying on the bed, they will bend into a “C” shape and will not turn over, have difficulty swallowing, lose weight and weakness, and have low immunity. Long-term painful torture can also cause insomnia, irritability and other emotional reactions. More than 80% of patients have the tendency of anxiety, depression, inferiority, and even lose confidence in life. & shy; “clinically, patients with Parkinson’s disease mainly show three major symptoms: static tremors, rigidity and slow movement. In the early stage, even if some symptoms already exist, they often fail to attract the attention of patients and relatives.” Yuan bangqing said that in the early stage of Parkinson’s disease, the symptoms are mostly asymmetric, that is to say, the symptoms often start from one limb and gradually spread to the limbs as the disease progresses. & shy; Installing a brain pacemaker can improve symptoms & shy; “The treatment of Parkinson’s disease requires multi-disciplinary combination. Drugs and rehabilitation are very important, but at this stage, brain pacemakers can be said to be the best treatment.” Yuan bangqing said that for many patients with Parkinson’s disease, drug therapy is still the main treatment, and they generally do not go to hospital. There are two kinds of patients who come to hospital, one is that drug therapy is beyond control; The other is surgery. & shy; The so-called surgical treatment mainly refers to deep brain stimulation (DBS) at present, that is, installing miniature brain pacemakers in brain nucleus through surgery. By implanting electrodes in the brain, stimulating the relevant nerve nuclei that control movement in the brain and inhibiting abnormal cranial nerve signals that cause symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can effectively control patients’ symptoms and eliminate side effects caused by drug therapy, let patients move freely. & shy; Yuan bangqing said that in the early stage of treatment of Parkinson’s disease, drugs can really improve symptoms, but after two or three years of “honeymoon period”, Parkinson’s disease will become difficult to control, patients will also increase complications caused by drugs. Brain pacemaker has the advantages of reversible, adjustable, safe, minimally invasive and so on in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, which can obviously improve the symptoms of delayed or disordered movements, muscular rigidity and tremors of patients, it can also significantly reduce the side effects caused by taking drugs. After receiving the treatment of brain pacemakers, most patients have improved their motor symptoms, improved their quality of life, able to return to work, and even participate in physical exercises like normal people. (Reporter Li Qiong correspondent du hang)