New Implants and Pumps Offer Hope for Advanced Parkinson's Patients

Advanced Parkinson's disease confines millions of patients to beds or wheelchairs, with orthostatic hypotension and insomnia severely degrading quality of life.

For the millions living with advanced Parkinson's disease, the later stages have long meant a narrowing world — the loss of movement, of sleep, of ordinary life. Two new devices, emerging from separate research teams, now suggest that medicine may be learning to work around the disease's cruelest effects rather than waiting to reverse them. A spinal cord implant helped one patient walk where she once could only fall, and a nighttime pump restored sleep that tremors and depleted dopamine had long stolen. The findings are early and incomplete, but they point toward a different philosophy of care

New Implants and Pumps Offer Hope for Advanced Parkinson's Patients

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