What is it about?
We know that Parkinson's disease patients tend to have more anxiety, pain and depression than healthy people. Restless legs syndrome also worsens this situation, but what about osteoarthritis?
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Why is it important?
This is the first paper that seeks to understand the detrimental impact of osteoarthritis on pain, depression and anxiety in patients suffering with Parkinson's disease (PD). Furthermore, a novel approach to examining Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), PD and osteoarthritis together in the light of the symptoms of pain, anxiety and depression was also examined for the first time.
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I hope this article helps people understand that when patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer from osteoarthritis, the situation just gets all the more worse in terms of pain, anxiety and depression when comparing to healthy people, or even when comparing to those suffering from another movement disorder alongside PD (ie. restless legs syndrome).
Abdul Rehman Qureshi
Parkinson's Clinic of Eastern Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Osteoarthritis Increases Paresthestic and Akathisic Pain, Anxiety Case-ness, and Depression Severity in Patients With Parkinson's Disease, Frontiers in Neurology, June 2018, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00409.
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