Common misconceptions about brain pacemaker therapy

  Treatment Myth 1: Surgery is considered only when the disease is very serious Due to medical and economic and social constraints, domestic Parkinson’s disease patients usually consider surgery only in the late stages of the disease. Patients suffer from pain all year round and have a very low quality of life; foreign developed countries have adopted brain pacemaker (deep brain electrical stimulation) therapy as an important means to improve the quality of life of Parkinson’s disease patients. Surgery is performed when medications fail to provide satisfactory results; foreign authoritative literature suggests that early treatment is beneficial.  Treatment myth 2: Brain surgery is risky Brain pacing (deep brain electrical stimulation) treatment is a minimally invasive surgery, which applies MRI, electrophysiological recording instruments and directional equipment to avoid blindness; Treatment myth 3: Elderly people cannot tolerate this kind of surgery Brain pacing (deep brain electrical stimulation) treatment is a minimally invasive surgery, which uses local anesthesia most of the time, so the patient is awake most of the time Some patients have received information from various sources that pacemaker therapy is not as effective as they thought; pacemaker therapy cannot cure Parkinson’s disease, but it is the most effective treatment for controlling Parkinson’s disease symptoms other than dopa drugs; statistics It has been found that more than 87% of the patients undergoing surgery have significant or relatively significant results; some patients do not have significant results, but after adjusting the stimulation parameters and cooperating with medication and rehabilitation, these patients can have better symptom relief.