Additional Pain In Parkinson’s Patients Due To Involuntary Muscle Contractions
Italian researchers suggest that pain is associated with Parkinson’s disease after finding that pain appears more common in people who suffer from the condition than in those who do not. Their results are published in the September issue of Archives of Neurology. “Patients with Parkinson’s disease often complain of painful sensations that may involve body parts affected and unaffected by dystonia [involuntary muscle contractions],” write author Giovanni Defazio, M.
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Filed under: Body on October 1st, 2008