Parkinson's Disease and Bone Health

Parkinson's disease and bone health.

SIR—We were very interested in the paper by Abou-Raya et al. [1] regarding bone health and Parkinson's disease. In our rural community of Ceredigion, West Wales, we carried out a similar study in 2007. We were prompted by a spate of hip fractures amongst our patients attending the movement disorder clinic. We looked at 50 patients (31 males) and enrolled their carers as controls for vitamin D l...

Parkinsons Disease Classification using Neural Network and Feature Selection

In this study, the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP)with Back-Propagation learning algorithm are used to classify to effective diagnosis Parkinsons disease(PD).It’s a challenging problem for medical community.Typically characterized by tremor, PD occurs due to the loss of dopamine in the brains thalamic region that results in involuntary or oscillatory movement in the body. A feature selection algor...

Evaluation of health related quality of life in patients with Parkinsons disease.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the socio-demographic and clinical feature of patients with Parkinson`s disease, their health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and the relationship between these. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Hospital, and Ministry of Health, Taksim and Haseki Education and Research Hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey. The s...

Manual Therapy Choices: A General Approach to Parkinsons Disease

In treating dysfunction, it is normal for most therapists to use a variety of modalities and methods including myofascial release, muscle-energy techniques, positional-release techniques and many more. The assumption must be that different tools achieve different effects, and the ones we choose reflect our perception as to the needs of the individual and/or of the tissues involved. Sledgehammer...

Bone growth in health and disease.