Ayurveda

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative brain condition associated with motor symptoms (slowness of movement, tremors, rigidity, and imbalance) and other complications, such as cognitive impairment, mental disorders, sleep and pain disorders and sensory disturbances. Those who suffer from it have an opportunity for  medical treatment in Cuba.

Cuban researchers have developed a technique to implant live nervous cells deep into the brain that significantly improves the quality of life of patients Parkinson’s disease. Doctor Julián Alvarez Blanco, Director of the International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN), explains that this achievement in Cuban medicine was made due to development of a cutting-edge surgical procedure called stereotaxic surgery (or minimal access surgery), together with the newest techniques of computerized brain mapping and superficial and deep registers of the brain’s electrical activity.

Cuba has more than 10 years of experience in neurotransplantation, there is great experience in performing stereotaxic surgical procedures (pallidotomy, thalamotomy), with more than 200 surgeries performed on people with movement disorders, with a high rate of effectiveness and tolerance.

Patients to be submitted to these surgical treatments must be selected taking into account several factors such as: stage of the disease, disabling symptoms, response to pharmacological treatment, age, etc. All cases must first be evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of specialists to determine whether they have criteria for treatment, and then they will be evaluated during the first week to define the most appropriate therapeutic conduct. It is an essential requirement that patients travel with a companion.

Pharmacological and surgical treatments mitigate the symptoms of the disease. In addition, patients partially recover their functions and significantly improve their quality of life through rehabilitation therapies.