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Wearing off it’s hard to do! By Dr. De Leon

  “He stopped loving me in the thick of my loving him.     He was finished but I was not.  I felt like I had been stopped in the middle of an orgasm.” ~ Stopped by Carmen  R. Rutlen When I was practicing I used to have an intellectual grasp of  the motor fluctuations ; yet neverContinue reading “Wearing off it’s hard to do! By Dr. De Leon”

 Tips & Tricks: Traveling with Parkinson’s Disease – Part Deux: By Dr. De Leon

 Tips & Tricks: Traveling with Parkinson’s Disease – Part Deux: By Dr. De Leon.

Tips for Treating Swallowing Difficulties in Parkinson’s: By Dr. De Leon

Tips for Treating Swallowing Difficulties in Parkinson’s: By Dr. De Leon.

Tips for Treating Swallowing Difficulties in Parkinson’s: By Dr. De Leon

Most of us know that one of the hallmarks of PD is muscle rigidity. Since the muscles of mastication and deglutition (swallowing) which include tongue, palate, pharynx and esophagus can also become affected and stiff as the disease advances swallowing can become not just a challenge but a matter of life and death as timeContinue reading “Tips for Treating Swallowing Difficulties in Parkinson’s: By Dr. De Leon”

What is Parkinson’s Disease? By Dr. De Leon

It has been nearly two centuries since the name of a famous English surgeon by the name of James Parkinson was assigned to a chronic neurological condition affecting nearly 10 million people worldwide known as Parkinson’s disease (PD).  For years Parkinson’s specialists have based their treatment of this progressive neurological disease on the clinical characteristicsContinue reading “What is Parkinson’s Disease? By Dr. De Leon”