Parkinson’s, 30 years on
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Depressing read about Michael J Fox
"I broke my cheek, then my hand, then my shoulder, had a replacement shoulder put in and broke my [right] arm, then I broke my elbow," he said. "I'm 61 years old, and I'm feeling it a little bit more."
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Does Parkinson make your bones more easy to break, or is it just more falling because of balance?
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Does Parkinson make your bones more easy to break, or is it just more falling because of balance?
@taiwan_girl said in Parkinson’s, 30 years on:
Does Parkinson make your bones more easy to break, or is it just more falling because of balance?
As far as I know, there's no correlation between the two - just falling, I assume.
However, it's interesting that Fox broke bones at a relatively young age.
Another thing is that Fox's movement disorder is not typical Parkinson's. Parkinson's usually manifests itself as skeletal muscle rigidity, where "getting going" is difficult. Getting out of a chair, and starting to walk can be a challenge. His movements are more characteristic of tardive dyskinesia - which is more typical as a side effect of various psychotropic drugs, though it can occur in Parkinson's.
Another atypical thing is that Parkinson's patients frequently have "masked facies," - an expressionless appearance to their facial musculature. One of my neighbors has PD, and I could tell, on first meeting, that he had it. He never told me about it, and it was only after about 4 years that his wife mentioned it.
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