Scientists used adult stem cells in the solid umbilical cord to deal with rats with Parkinson's, and located significant recovery in motion and behavior. Weiss ML, et al., Human umbilical cord matrix stem cells: preliminary characterization and effect of transplantation inside a rodent type of parkinson's disease, Stem Cells 24, 781-792, March 2006. British researchers [...]

Abstract In 1993, the final AAN Practice Parameter on treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) figured levodopa was the very best medicine for management of the disorder. Ever since then, numerous new compounds including non-ergot dopamine agonists (DA) and sustained-release levodopa happen to be released and studied. Thus, the problem of treatment in de novo PD [...]

The Access Therapy Controller is really a portable device that is able to provide patients with enhanced control over their stimulation parameters. The patients have the ability to increase or decrease the stimulation voltages by pressing buttons around the portable device, but within set limits. This permits patients to change the stimulation intensity (based on [...]