Improving Quality of Life: Treatment Strategies for Movement Disorders

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Our general quality of life can best be described, as our ability to perform daily, seemingly mundane, tasks. Only when we aren't able to do what we took for granted do we realise the importance of our mental well-being. Our brain is in charge of plenty of functions, where motor, coordination and muscle functions are some of the more important aspects. Having hyperkinetic or hypokinetic problems leads to sudden degradations of our lives. But, just as they appear, they can be dealt with proper treatment and assistance.

1. Physical treatments

Physical activity is incredible for our body, muscles, heart and longevity. Our bodies must be in motion, and the stillness of our modern lives can cause plenty of damage to them. Sitting while working, relaxing, and general inactivity can cause movement disorders, where our muscles and mental functions can't perform their duties.

With regular occupational or physical therapy associated with certified and experienced physical therapists, you can remove the stiffness of your muscles, aches, pain and related symptoms. While back problems are common in physical therapy, it's important to note that any part of our body can be affected.

2. Medication

Strides and improvements to the field of treatment of medical disorders have existed on all fronts. From direct physical therapy to treatments and medications, a cure for numerous disorders exists, it's only a matter of applying the right one. Once diagnosed, the root of the problem can stem from a chemical imbalance, which can lead to muscle disorder and inefficiency. Spazams and spasticity are treatable with muscle relaxants, as well as early stages of Parkinson's disease.

In the case of Parkinson's, the root problem lies with the insufficiency of a chemical known as Dopamine not being delivered to the basal brain ganglia. Medication can help improve those receptors and correct the medical imbalance. If you have spasms, dystonia or restless muscle syndromes, medication can help your brain to relax, freeing up your nerve signals and letting your body fight to restore its functions. Imbalances in the brain are the root of all movement disorders, and medication can help bring balance to your life.

3. Deep Brain Stimulation

When our heart has problems maintaining a steady beat, we can install a pacemaker. Similarly, when our brain is struggling to send signals to the rest of our body, we can install a kind of "brain pacemaker" known as deep brain stimulation (DBS). Certified and experienced brain surgeons from Briz Brain & Spine can implant electrodes within the brain. Those electrodes will then make electrical impulses affecting our brain activity.

The result is some certain medical conditions associated with movement disorders get better and the quality of life for the patient improves. All of those electrical impulses are being controlled with the pacemaker-like device within the brain. Genetic pre-conditions, wrong or excessive medications brain trauma or toxins can all deteriorate our functions and lead to involuntary movements, for example, manifest. With deep brain stimulation, you're targeting the core of the problem and making changes at the root.

4. Psychotherapy

Medication, active therapy, procedures and brain surgery are all invasive, but effective methods to treat your movement disorders. But sometimes, quality psychotherapy can help alleviate your symptoms. Mental disorders can alter the way we view and think about the world, making us lose control over our bodies and basic functions.

Toxic emotions, unhealthy thoughts and destructive behaviours all can lead to depression and anxiety, deteriorating your mental and physical health. Muscle deterioration and disorders follow, in the form of tremors, shaking and nervous muscles, but psychotherapy can be equally effective as the methods above, with far less invasive methods.

5. Trying clinical trials

Sometimes, a cure for certain movement disorders conditions, and diseases is just around the corner. Clinical trials are regularly on the verge of making a breakthrough and curing mental and movement-related disorders. Joining clinical trials can be beneficial for your condition, and it can even be profitable. Companies will pay handsome sums for you to partake in clinical testing for various movement disorders.

Your physician or doctor can suggest and help you enroll in some clinical trials. Those trials close to discovery and in the final phases are proven effective in treating rare or unusual disorders. Even well-established and documented conditions can have new and revolutionary treatments, which advance the field and move the medical profession forward. With your assistance and enlisting in clinical trials, you can help yourself and the medical field.

Doing anything for your mental and general well-being is better than letting it deteriorate further. Not giving up, giving yourself a fighting chance and dealing with any movement disorders can vastly improve your life. While it may be difficult to admit you have a problem and to begin with treatments, eventually it will all be worth it. With assistance from professional doctors and proper treatment, anything is possible!

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