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Bone health and Parkinson’s disease

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

The Importance of Bone Health and Parkinson’s Disease Falls can be a major difficulty for people with Parkinson’s disease...see more (PD), leading to fractures and other injuries. People with PD are at increased risk of fracture, with a four times higher risk of hip fracture as compared with the general population. Often, a person with PD […]

Lower back pain and Parkinson’s disease

Posted on August 24, 2021October 10, 2024 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

Lower back pain is an extremely common problem in the general population, as...see more well as for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). It tends to make moving more difficult, adding to the challenges of PD. Tim Nordahl, PT, DPT, a physical therapist at Boston University gave an excellent presentation as […]

Impaired Balance and Falls in People with Parkinson’s Disease

Posted on June 8, 2021January 20, 2023 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

Balance Impairment and Falls in Parkinson’s Disease One of the most challenging symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) that fundamentally...see more affects quality of life is balance impairment that can lead to falls. Falls are one of the major causes of emergency room visits and hospitalizations for people with PD, so finding ways to prevent as many […]

Posture problems in Parkinson’s Disease

Posted on April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

Dr. Gilbert discusses the various abnormal postures associated with Parkinson’s disease. Posture and PD A well-established but poorly understood...see more clinical feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is difficulty with posture. Most people with PD exhibit some degree of stooped posture. A smaller group of people with PD have more pronounced problems with posture. They might walk […]

Planning for the What Ifs – Multiple System Atrophy

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

Advanced Parkinson’s and Multiple System Atrophy As part of our Planning for the What Ifs series, today we continue to expand...see more the definition of advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) by discussing one of the atypical parkinsonian syndromes. In a past blog we explored two other atypical parkinsonian syndromes – Progressive supranuclear palsy and Corticobasal degeneration. Today we will […]

Therapies for non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in clinical trials

Posted on December 9, 2020July 25, 2022 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

The pipeline for Parkinson’s disease (PD) medications is extremely crowded these days, with multiple medications at various stages of...see more research and development. Currently most of the approved medications for PD address the motor symptoms of PD – tremor, slowness, stiffness, and walking difficulties. Medications are also available to help people overcome OFF time or improve […]

Peripheral neuropathy and Parkinson’s disease

Posted on October 20, 2020December 29, 2022 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

Today I will address the potential link between Parkinson’s disease and a common neurologic condition called peripheral neuropathy. This...see more topic was submitted via the Suggest a Topic portal. I am grateful for your suggestions so please continue to let us know what you’d like to learn more about! In order to understand what peripheral neuropathy […]

Planning for the What Ifs – Progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration

Posted on September 15, 2020May 30, 2023 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

Atypical parkinsonian syndromes Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degeneration As part of our Planning for the What Ifs series,...see more today we expand the definition of advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) by discussing atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APS), neurodegenerative disorders that are related to PD. Our guest author, Dr. Pravin Khemani, a Movement disorders neurologist at Swedish Medical […]

Could this be due to Parkinson’s Disease? Uncommon non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

It is common for a person with Parkinson’s disease (PD) to attribute every new symptom that develops to PD....see more That is largely because the list of non-motor symptoms (symptoms that you can’t see) commonly associated with PD is so varied, it can seem that almost anything is a symptom of PD! But if you take […]

Other causes of tremor besides Parkinson’s disease

Posted on March 3, 2020August 17, 2022 by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

A tremor doesn’t always mean it’s Parkinson’s Many people think of Parkinson’s disease (PD) as the “tremor disease”, so...see more much so, that when a tremor is noticed, the first diagnosis people typically think of is PD. Although about 25% of people with PD do not have tremor, 75% of them do, so tremor is certainly […]

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