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Location: Stafford, UK
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job1119,
Point taken, but why let this stop us?
The problems are many:
- perhaps the gadget only works for Emma's version of PD;
- perhaps the response seen was only a placebo (but, let us not write off placebos, they have a value);
- perhaps the gadget has more complexity than we think (before this programme was broadcast I thought the solution was to fire tiny electrical shocks at the arm so as to cancel out the signals causing the tremor).
Progress has been made in similar areas: the non-spill spoon; a gyroscope strapped to the wrist.
I like the ethos of the show: you have a problem, we can likely reduce it. Or, taking it one stage further, I have a problem, I can likely reduce it.
The rapid development approach adopted by this programme, with its "can do" attitude, contrasts with the Big Pharma/ Big Medicine/ FDA approach of creating hurdle after hurdle to climb over.
John
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Born 1955. Diagnosed PD 2005.
Meds 2010-Nov 2016: Stalevo(75 mg) x 4, ropinirole xl 16 mg, rasagiline 1 mg
Current meds: Stalevo(75 mg) x 5, ropinirole xl 8 mg, rasagiline 1 mg
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