Monday, August 13, 2007

PD a progressive muscles disorders

Q: PD a progressive muscles movement disorders

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Muscle a tissue whose cells have the ability to contract, producing movement or force. Muscles possess mechanisms for converting energy derived from chemical reactions into mechanical energy. The major functions of muscles are to produce movements of the body, to maintian the positions of the body against the force of gravity,to produce movements of structures inside the body, and to alter presures or tensions of structures in the body.

There are three types of muscle i.e. "striated muslce attached to the skeleton, "smooth muscle, which is found in such tissues as the stomach, gut and blood vessels, and cardia muscle which forms the walll of the heart..

PD patients lose the abilty to monitor of the body muscles movement ie. striated muscles, smooth muscle and cardia muscle. Therefore they have
body tremor, rigidity and a poverty of spontaneous movement. The common symptom is tremor which affects one hand, spreading first to the other limbs. The patients have am expressionless face, unmodulated voice , an increasing tendency to stoop, and a shuffing walk.

The late treatment of PD patients will developing more diseases, ie. constipation, poor vision, swallow, anxiety with brain and nerve breakdown, heart failure, liver, kidney diseases.


TEO KIM HOE

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