(Adnkronos) - "Il Parkinson ha tante facce perché è una patologia multiforme. Rispetto a questa diagnosi persone non vedono via d’uscita. E allora è fondamentale dare speranza. È una prigione perché è uno stigma. La chiave d’uscita è individuale. Dobbiamo essere in grado di trovarla insieme ad ogni paziente che grazie ad un approccio non solo farmacologico ma olistico è in grado di vedere un futuro più positivo".
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00:00Parkinson's disease has many faces precisely because it is a multiform pathology.
00:12The majority of patients come to us because they feel a rigidity in the arteries.
00:18Often, before, they get infected by the orthopedic and are unable to frame the problems.
00:24When, finally, after a long journey, they arrive at the neurologist,
00:29in addition to the rigidity, the slowness of the movements, the problems of balance,
00:36the difficulty of writing, the pain, there are really situations that
00:43regardless of motor disorders and sensitive disorders.
00:48And it is when we put the diagnosis, a situation of anxiety, depression, sometimes despair,
01:00because compared to this diagnosis, Parkinson's disease, they do not clearly see a way out.
01:09And then it is essential to speak, explain, provide hope to the patient
01:16and above all through an adequate pharmacological therapy,
01:22with drugs that are suitable in the initial phase,
01:26but above all convincing the patient to change their lifestyle a little
01:33and involve the family members in this change, then a light of hope opens up.
01:40And then the relationship, the dialogue, becomes more profitable and the patient immediately assumes,
01:47even experiencing an improvement in their own symptomatology,
01:52a reduction of those symptoms that had been a polyhedral aspect of negativity,
02:00instead they become, they transform into hope.
02:05And we have to try to stimulate that in our visit, in our colloquium.
02:11It must be a relationship that is not just a medical visit,
02:16but a colloquium that guides the patient not only through therapies, but through lifestyles.
02:23It is a prison because, first of all, creating a prison is a stigma.
02:28The patient, from a condition of normality, of physiological situation,
02:34finds himself to have the weight of a diagnosis,
02:38which is a diagnosis that evokes bad things for the future, which evokes disability.
02:46The key to success is an individual key.
02:49We must be able to find it together with each patient,
02:54where, in addition to the pharmacological aspects, we must consider some fundamental aspects.
03:01Sociality is an important element.
03:04For sociality it means maintaining relationships with the family, with work, with friends,
03:10and the less pessimistic perception of the future,
03:15because the patient, thanks to an approach not only pharmacological but holistic,
03:21is able to see a more positive future than what he saw at the time of the diagnosis.
03:31So, optimism in therapy, optimism in perspective.