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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: New York
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Location: New York
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Muscular strain and muscular injury
The primary symptom of Parkinson's Disease is excessive muscle contraction.
Both muscular strain and muscular injury can cause excessive muscle contraction. Consequently both can cause the muscular symptoms of Parkinson's Disease. Prolonged muscular strain can do this quite easily, but it takes quite a muscular injury to cause Parkinson's Disease symptoms.
The difference between these and Parkinson's Disease is that (1) muscular strain and muscular injury will only affect the muscles that are strained or injured, (2) low dopamine levels are not necessarily involved, and (3) the symptoms will wear off when the muscles are no longer strained or injured.
So could muscular strain in the past cause Parkinson's Disease now ?
No, it's not possible.
However, if somebody is borderline Parkinson's Disease, regular muscular strain could maintain Parkinson's Disease symptoms for years whilst the muscular strain persists.
The easiset way to find out if muscular strain is causing Parkinson's Disease symptoms in any particular muscle is by ceasing virtually all use of the affected muscles for a week. If the Parkinson's Disease symptoms cease then muscular strain rather than low dopamine is the primary cause.
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