## Abstract Pain and other nonmotor symptoms in PD are increasingly recognized as a major cause of reduced health‐related 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 (PD)
✍ Scribed by Jörgen Boivie
- Book ID
- 116818728
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Volume
- 141
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0304-3959
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Summnry: We studied the prevalence and character of pain in Parkinson's disease (PD) and its associatjon with motor fluctuations. Of 95 outpatients, 46% experienced pain they attributed to PD. Patients with pain were younger but no more disabled on objective motor scores than patients without pain.
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