79-Year-Old Parkinson’s Patient Liu Gets a Surprise

Liu Lao is 79 years old this year, has long been suffering from Parkinson’s disease, every day small steps to walk, slow activities, the body becomes stiff, some fine movements are very inflexible, taking Medicobar and other drugs can relieve a lot, at least when the open period when the old man can do a little thing by himself, but when the closed period when everything is back to square one. The strong Liu has been struggling with Parkinson’s disease for 9 years between “on-off” and “mask face”, and it’s hard to smile again. Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Department of Neurosurgery Yang Zhiquan with the progress of the disease, recently Liu Lao situation has worsened significantly, the therapeutic effect of drugs greatly reduced, every day with the help of external forces can barely walk a few steps, life has been unable to take care of themselves. The filial son and daughter after several rounds, learned that Parkinson’s disease can also do surgery, but considering the father’s age is nearly 80 years old, the risk of surgery is too great, the ambivalence of the psychology of the whole family is really in a mental struggle. Finally, they found Director Yang Zhiquan of Xiangya Hospital, and after carefully weighing the pros and cons, the family decided to take a risk and do the “brain pacemaker” surgery for their elderly father. Starting from August this year, Director Yang Zhiquan of Neurosurgery Department of Xiangya Hospital adopted a new technology, which is the fusion of high-definition magnetic resonance (MRI) images and undistorted CT images, which greatly improves the effect of the surgery. In order for Liu to get satisfactory surgical results, Director Yang adopted this new technology. With his excellent skills, the stimulation electrodes were accurately placed on specific nerve nuclei in the brain during the operation, and the immediate stimulation during the operation also showed a good improvement. One month after the operation, Mr. Liu came to the hospital to turn on the computer. Yesterday, Mr. Liu, who originally came to the hospital in a wheelchair, turned on the computer and his lower limbs did not stiffen up, and he was able to stand up from the chair effortlessly, and he walked with a big step, and he was able to walk well without the help of others, and his face showed a smile that had not been seen for a long time. When her daughter saw how happy her father was, she called Director Yang to report the good news and express her heartfelt thanks!