External focus helps Parkinson’s disease patients ease their symptoms and achieve success
Briefings on Outpatient Rehab: Reimbursement and Regulations, May 1, 2009
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Parkinson’s disease is a chronic, progressive, neurologic disorder that primarily affects the elderly. The disease is the second most common neurogenerative disease (behind Alzheimer’s disease), and it greatly affects the lives of the patient and the patient’s caregivers as well as the healthcare system.
The 2004 U.S. Census projected a rise in the proportion of the population older than 65, and individuals aged 85 or older are the fastest-growing segment of the population. As the U.S. population ages, the number of people afflicted with Parkinson’s disease is expected to increase, with a projected 1.3 million people living with Parkinson’s disease in the United States by 2040, according to a 1993 study by D.E. Lilienfeld and D.P. Perl.
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