Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease vary from person to person. The most common symptoms include:

• Tremor
• Slowness of movement
• Rigid muscles/stiff limbs
• Unsteady walk and balance and coordination problems
• Muscle twisting, spasms or cramps (dystonia). the patient may experience a painful cramp in your foot or curled and clenched toes & Dystonia may occur in the other body parts of the patient.
• Stooped posture.

Other symptoms include:

• Decreased facial expressions
• Speech/vocal changes
• Handwriting changes:
• Depression and anxiety.
• Chewing and swallowing problems, drooling.
• Urinary problems.
• Mental “thinking” difficulties/memory problems.
• Hallucinations/delusions.
• Constipation.
• Skin problems, such as dandruff.
• Loss of smell.
• Sleeping disturbances
• Lack of interest (apathy), fatigue, change in weight, vision changes.
• Low blood pressure.

What lifestyle changes can I make to ease Parkinson’s symptoms?

• Exercise: It helps improve muscle strength, balance, coordination, flexibility, and tremor.
• Eat a healthy, balanced diet: This is not only good for your general health but also helps in some of the non-movement related symptoms of Parkinson’s, such as constipation.
• Preventing falls and maintaining balance:
• Improve the quality of your sleep.

• Slowness of all motor movements (Akinesia)
• Pill rolling tremors – Tremors of one handcoarse regular
• Tremor is present at rest (static tremors), disappears during the voluntary movement
• Face loses its movements of expression (masked face).
• Speech : Rapid and monotonous, repetition of syllables.
• Rigidity is of extrapyramidal type. ‘Cog-Wheel’
• Cramps and muscles pain is common.