Kazakhstan to Introduce Surgery for Tremor, Parkinson’s Diseases

A new approach to treatment of tremor and Parkinson’s diseases is coming to Kazakhstan, according to Tengrinews.kz, quoting the development director of the State Scientific Neurosurgery Center, Chingiz Shashkin, at a round-table meeting called Neurology and neurosurgery. Joint strategies.

“This year, we are planning to implement new methods of treatment of Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and dystonia: these methods involve deep brain stimulation that suppresses symptoms like tremor and Parkinson’s diseases,” he says. “The surgery is highly effective, and allows to treat the patients at an early stage and very quickly get them back to normal life. The plan is to implement a method of treatment of neuropatic pain by neurostumulation of spinal cord, when special small electrodes are implanted into the spinal cord and then connected to highly-technological electronic devices transmitting electric signals to the cord. This modulates the nervous system and helps cope with neuropatic pain in limbs.”

According to Shashkin, this technology has minimal risks. The advantage of neurostimulation lies in the fact that if ineffective, the electrodes can be easily extracted without harming the patient in any way. Approximately 16,000 people in Kazakhstan suffer from Parkinson’s disease. For more information, click here to read the full release.