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Hope for Neurodegenerative Disorders in Pennsylvania
Slow the process of neurodegenerative disorders and significantly improve your quality of life. Talk with a Hope Brain and Body specialist today!
” Unfortunately, I have gone through 23 physicians and had not one physician say that they knew what was going on. All my symptoms are a little bit of everything. Now, I’ve been a changed person ever since. More than half of my pain is gone, I’m using a lot less pain medication, and I’m enjoying life much more than I thought I would be. “
Pattie, overcoming Parkinson’s disease.
How do Neurodegenerative Disorders Affect Daily Life?
Neurodegenerative disorders are insidious. They may start out with a minor symptom or two that can be attributed to aging, surgery/illness, and recovery, or emotional turmoil. However, because these disorders are degenerative, rarely do these symptoms regress or reverse themselves once an attributing condition improves.
Initially, a neurodegenerative disorder may cause issues with coordination or remembering things. But as the neurons continue to deteriorate, symptoms progressively worsen. Individuals may lose the ability to walk, think clearly, and/or take care of themselves. They may become combatant or lethargic.
What Are the Symptoms of Neurodegenerative Disorders?
The most common symptoms of neurodegenerative disorders are many: mood changes, confusion, impatience, loss of inhibition, agitation and anxiety, apathy, forgetfulness, memory loss, decreased attention and focus, impaired problem-solving and planning skills, inability to complete everyday tasks, spatial skill impairment, problems with word usage in speaking and/or writing, misplacing items and being unable to retrace steps, social withdrawal, and disorganization.
Granted, this is a broad range of symptoms that rarely occur in isolation. Additionally, many mimic the symptoms of other health-related problems. It is imperative that a comprehensive assessment of a person’s physical, mental, and emotional health be done to differentiate the diagnosis so that the appropriate intervention and treatment plan be developed.
What are Neurodegenerative Disorders?
Neurodegenerative disorders are those that primarily affect the brain’s neurons, the nervous system’s building blocks. The neurons that were once firing readily and easily are no longer firing at the same rates or as powerful as before.
Neurodegenerative disorders are debilitating diseases that cause the progressive deterioration and/or death of the neurons within the brain’s nerve cells. Chief among the resulting problems are issues with movement and/or mental functioning. Over time, these disorders can alter personality and cause confusion. They also can result in the destruction of brain tissue. Because of the body’s inability to regenerate or replace neurons, neurodegenerative disorders have no cure.
Included in the broad classification of neurodegenerative disorders are Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, Parkinson’s disease and related disorders and Huntington’s disease.
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How can the Doctors and the Hope Brain & Body Recovery Center help?
“We put a lot of time and effort into trying to make transformations in a big way or small way at each appointment for every patient. Transforming lives is what we do. I mean, we give people’s lives back.”
Despite the fact that neurodegenerative disorders are progressive much has been learned about slowing the process of these disorders and significantly improving the quality of life for patients and their families, who often serve as caregivers.
The Doctors will review all medical testing and results, cognitive and coordination assessments, nutritional and metabolic information, behavioral observations, and other data collected to date. Additional testing and assessments may be done to determine the exact rate and level of deterioration.
From this information the Doctors will formulate a treatment plan of brain health strategies designed to improve neuroplastic responses in several regions of the brain, support the brain and its neurons to function more efficiently and optimize the quality of life. These strategies might include changes in diet and exercise, the use of cognitive exercises, and the addition of dietary supplements.
The goals are to slow the disorder’s progression, strengthen the brain’s functioning relay and response channels, help the brain find alternate routes for ineffective or missing channels, and provide the patient the best quality of life possible.