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Slowness Symptom Report

A feeling of slowness of "bradykinesia" is one of the cardinal symptoms of Parkinson's disease. People may have to concentrate very hard to carry out physical movements, or they may react more slowly to things going on in their environment. Some people also have trouble initiating movement. Read more...Click to read more below


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Symptom Severities

Slowness severity pie chart

Treatments Patients Take For Slowness

Treatments Patients Take For Slowness
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Carbidopa-Levodopa 34 2% Carbidopa-Levodopa: 2%
Pramipexole 9 0% Pramipexole: 0%
Carbidopa-Levodopa CR 4 0% Carbidopa-Levodopa CR: 0%
Amantadine 2 0% Amantadine: 0%
Levodopa-Benserazide 2 0% Levodopa-Benserazide: 0%
Rasagiline 2 0% Rasagiline: 0%
Apomorphine 1 0% Apomorphine: 0%
Carbidopa-Entacapone-Levodopa 1 0% Carbidopa-Entacapone-Levodopa: 0%
CoQ10 Coenzyme Q10 1 0% CoQ10 Coenzyme Q10: 0%
Cyclobenzaprine 1 0% Cyclobenzaprine: 0%
Elliptical Trainer 1 0% Elliptical Trainer: 0%
Entacapone 1 0% Entacapone: 0%
Exercise Bicycle 1 0% Exercise Bicycle: 0%
Handicapped parking permit 1 0% Handicapped parking permit: 0%
Modafinil 1 0% Modafinil: 0%
Ropinirole 1 0% Ropinirole: 0%
Selegiline 1 0% Selegiline: 0%
Stretches, weights, treadmill, bicycle 1 0% Stretches, weights, treadmill, bicycle: 0%
Walking 1 0% Walking: 0%
Zonisamide 1 0% Zonisamide: 0%

Report created on November 07, 2009.