{"id":2667,"date":"2018-10-26T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:24:16","slug":"ori-seminar-whats-different-about-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/2018\/10\/26\/ori-seminar-whats-different-about-parkinsons-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"ORI Seminar: What’s Different about Parkinson’s Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday 22nd\u00a0Octobe\"\"<\/a>r 2018, the Orthopaedic Research Institute welcomed Dr Ralph Gregory and Professor Ian Swain<\/a> to lead an evening seminar on Parkinson\u2019s Disease. Dr Ralph Gregory, Consultant Neurologist and Dorset\u2019s lead for Parkinson\u2019s opened the evening with an insightful and informative talk on the treatment of Parkinson\u2019s disease. Dr Gregory highlighted how Dopamine has, for a long time, been the most frequently used medication used to help manage symptoms, and that recent work has sought to explore new and innovative methods to help patients. Dr Gregory demonstrated his work through a video-assisted talk, showing some moving examples of how assistive devices have helped improve his patients’ ability to complete daily activities. In addition, he highlighted some of the key early symptoms of the disease, including the loss of smell and disturbances to rapid eye movement sleep.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Ian Swain followed Ralph\u2019s talk, sharing recent research from colleague Dr Paul Taylor, who has investigated the role of Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation to reduce bradykinesia, as demonstrated by improved walking speed, in patients with Parkinson\u2019s Disease. The research team found clinically meaningful improvements in around half of the participants and are in the process of planning a fully powered study to investigate further.<\/p>\n

For more information on Ralph, Ian and Paul\u2019s research, please visit their Research Gate profiles:<\/p>\n

Ralph Gregory: https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Ralph_Gregory<\/a><\/p>\n

Ian Swain: https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Ian_Swain2<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Taylor: https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Paul_Taylor6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday 22nd\u00a0October 2018, the Orthopaedic Research Institute welcomed Dr Ralph Gregory and Professor Ian Swain to lead an evening seminar on Parkinson\u2019s Disease. Dr Ralph Gregory, Consultant Neurologist and Dorset\u2019s lead for Parkinson\u2019s opened the evening with an insightful and informative talk on the treatment of Parkinson\u2019s disease. Dr Gregory highlighted how Dopamine has,… Read more » about ORI Seminar: What’s Different about Parkinson’s Disease?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"featured_media":2669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/ori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}