## Abstract Pain and other nonmotor symptoms in PD are increasingly recognized as a major cause of reduced healthโrelated quality of life. Pain in PD may be categorized into a number of different subtypes, including musculoskeletal, dystonic, radicular neuropathic, and central pain. The onset of pa
Pain in Parkinson's disease
โ Scribed by Blair Ford
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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