When Parkinson's Gets Under Your Skin: Understanding Skin Changes and How to Care for Them Parkinson’s disease is best known for movement symptoms such as tremor, slowness and stiffness. But Parkinson’s can affect much more than movement. Changes in the [...]
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Continuous apomorphine therapy is a proven treatment for the relief of motor and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's patients from the middle stages of this progressive disease onwards, when adequate symptom control with oral medication alone is no longer satisfactory. It [...]
Apomorphine pump therapy is used to treat Parkinson's disease. Apomorphine is a dopamine agonist that stimulates dopaminergic receptors in the brain, thereby relieving Parkinson's symptoms. In association with apomorphine pump therapy, nodules (lumps) may appear at the injection site in [...]
Nodules are small growths under the skin that can occur at the needle puncture sites in connection with subcutaneous apomorphine pump therapy. Skin care, so massages, with St. John's wort oil ointment can be considered here as a way to [...]