GERIATRIC SYNDROMES: IMMOBILITY.

IMMOBILITY CAUSES IN ELDERLY PATIENTS

Among the most common neurological diseases related to immobility we find the Parkinson. Immobility exaggeratedly deteriorates the quality of life for seniors and negatively influences their health resulting in disease.

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that is somehow related to immobility. This disease belongs to the group of movement disorders.

Parkinson patients have fatigue. Recent studies have shown that people with Parkinson have loss of nerve endings that produce norepinephrine. Norepinephrine is totally mind related to dopamine which is the main chemical messenger of the sympathetic nervous system. (it controls many body functions). The loss of norepinephrine might help explaining several of the non-motor features of Parkinson's disease, including fatigue.

So I realized that immobility is partly related to one of the symptoms that may accompany Parkinson's disease (fatigue). Since they need to do more effort to practice more exercise and be mentally active.

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