As it is a very debilitating condition, researchers are investing in finding solutions or mitigations for Parkinson’s disease. So a new treatment offers hope that it may help patients walk again.
This is undoubtedly one more step towards improving the quality of life of patients.
Despite the known progress in the disease, patients with Parkinson’s experience very debilitating effects, which weaken their motor functions and seriously affect their lives. For this reason, researchers have looked for ways to lessen the disease, providing patients with a better quality of life, whenever possible.
In many cases, patients are confined to a bed or wheelchair due to orthostatic hypotension – which is basically the drop in blood pressure when standing upright. Fortunately, and as a breath of hope, researchers seem to have found a cure for this particular problem.
According to an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers have developed a spinal cord implant that may eventually allow Parkinson’s patients to stand up and walk. The treatment allowed three paralyzed people to walk again.
The treatment developed by the researchers mimics the way the brain sends electrical impulses to muscles, stimulating the brain’s transmitter that releases more blood when people stand up.
Although promising, researchers need to conduct more studies and tests of this implant for patients with Parkinson’s disease to ensure its viability and ultimately more applications.
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