Neurologists testing century-old observation as a potential new treatment for Parkinson's disease
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 14:05
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than one million Americans are living with Parkinson's disease, which slowly steals a person's control over their own body movements. Now, neurologists in the Movement Disorders Center at Rush University Medical Center have started a randomized, controlled pilot study to test a 100-year-old, non-invasive treatment developed by French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, who is the most authoritative doctor of the 19th century for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.