Bradykinesia

Bradykinesia is the freezing of voluntary movements.
A doctor will inevitably look for this symptom when treating Parkinson’s disease.
It can also be due to the use of certain medications.

Certain health disabilities such as joint or muscle stiffness, slow movements due to pain do not mean Bradykinesia.

Any specific causes of Bradykinesia are not known.
But it can be an effect of certain drugs such as antipsychotics or symptoms of Parkinson’s.
Brain damage like strokes, hydrocephalus, and tumor, severe depression, and hyperthyroidism are some causes of Bradykinesia.

As we know by now that symptoms of Bradykinesia include slow movements, other symptoms common with this condition are:
Little or no facial expression
Difficulty doing tasks that are repetitive in nature i.e., tapping, clapping.
Dragging feet and slow walking
Immobile muscles or sudden freezing – muscles may slow down to a point where they become immobile and freeze from time to time.
Disconnection between the body and brain’s commands
Difficulty with normal tasks such as getting up from a chair or buttoning a shirt.

There is no treatment for the cause.
But some medication might be prescribed to aid the patient.
Medicines that increase the level of dopamine are believed to have worked so far, some examples of such drugs are:
MAO-B inhibitors
Carbidopa-levodopa
Dopamine agonists
These types of prescriptions become less effective over time.
Your doctor may put you on a list of helpful drugs to find the right ones.
The doctor can adjust the medication or change the dosage by monitoring you.
Brain damages have different treatments such as shunt surgery.

In Bradykinesia the treatments obeyed in case of the following problems are:

To manage these symptoms certain remedies are recommended:

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