Talk:Parkinson's disease/Archive 6

Hyped medical device
The following content is hype of early-stage research based on bad sources. This belongs no where in WP at this time.

While not a treatment per se, a wearable device developed by Haiyan Zhang of Microsoft Research Cambridge, can serve to dampen the tremors of a patient's hand and fingers thereby restoring normal functions.

The claim of dampening motion is a medical claim and the people who invented this will not be able to market it without getting FDA approval; the content is here is about health, and in WP needs strong sourcing this per MEDRS. Jytdog (talk) 06:22, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 December 2016
Though Hypokinesia is wikilinked, Bradykinesia isn't, and it isn't at all obvious that the Hypokinesia article covers it. I think some form of rewording and further explanation is needed, rather than a simple wikilink. Maybe someone from Wikiproject Medicine can take a look, since it is a major Parkinson's symptom. 31.49.219.114 (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * done, thanks. let me know if that did it for you. Jytdog (talk) 22:57, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Rehabilitation & Parkinson's Disease
The final few sentences in the "Rehabilitation" section seem out of date in regards to occupational therapy treatment. OTs are highly trained in regards to treating PD patients. They have expertise in modifying the environment and maintaining overall quality of life for PD patients in all stages of the disease. There has been much emerging research suggesting the efficacy of OT interventions for those living with PD. Here are some links:

And one less academic source which summarizes one of the above articles:

Additionally, there was no mention of the OT/PT counterpart to LSVT LOUD, LSVT BIG. This is an exercise program that is based on the therapeutic principles of LSVT LOUD designed for individuals with PD. It is described as an "intensive amplitude-based exercise program for the limb motor system" that aids in "re-education of the sensorimotor system" (taken from LSVT BIG training program description). It can be used in treatment under an LSVT BIG certified occupational or physical therapist's guidance. Exercise has been suggested to modify disease progression in PD and is an important component of therapy for this population. More about LSVT BIG exercise protocol and exercise & PD here:

From a PT journal about LSVT BIG:

I hope these factors will be taken into consideration with editing the page in the future. Thank you!

Mstapleton49 (talk) 00:50, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2017
I believe the prevalence of Parkinson's disease is much lower than currently stated in the article. Current WHO estimates state a prevalence of 100-200 cases /100'000 which would amount to 9-18 million cases worldwide (http://www.who.int/mental_health/neurology/neurological_disorders_report_web.pdf) The source cited in the article (Lancet) gives an estimate of about 5.86 milion cases as of 2013 (Appendix 1, Page 759) 62.2.202.62 (talk) 09:27, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks and updated. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 05:42, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Interesting zebra fish animal model research
Parkinson's disease replicated in zebrafish leads scientists to uncover life-improving drugs Australian Broadcasting Corp. 11 April 2017 David Woodward ☮ ♡♢☞☽ 04:09, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Move request
The ICD 10 uses "Parkinson disease" not "Parkinson's disease". Any one object to changing? Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 20:48, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Full support. Would you also run it on WP:MED please so that we could possily apply similar principle to other disorders, like Alzheimer's disease, Cushing's syndrome, Gaucher's disease and hundreds of others? — kashmiri  TALK  12:45, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Support, provided there is clear mention of the widely-used alternative term, and a redirect from it. WP should comply with international standard terminology, but not neglect commonly-used alternatives. Lou Sander (talk) 13:36, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Full support BTW, as background, there is also a discussion started by my mimicing of this topic on the alz talk pageJeanOhm (talk) 18:09, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * support--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:37, 26 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Oppose. The disease is (I believe) more commonly known as Parkinson's disease. It certainly is in the UK. Both Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (19th edition) and Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine (8th edition) describe "Parkinson's disease". I tried a Pubmed search. Although I wasn't able to formally dissect out the two variants, a superficial glance seems to show that Parkinson's disease is more common. As a general rule, eponymous names of diseases typically use apostrophe & s, while eponymous syndromes (such as Down syndrome) use the alternative more often now. Axl ¤ [Talk] 10:14, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That's a very interesting observation, about disease vs syndrome. Worth a better look into it, I regret I won't have much time for it over the coming days. Anyone here feeling like running a couple of advanced Pubmed searches? — kashmiri  TALK  10:43, 27 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Oppose. My standard approach to issues like this is to look at page view statistics.  The statistics show that the redirect Parkinson disease gets about 20 page views per day, whereas the Parkinson's disease article gets about 6600 page views per day.  I conclude that only a tiny minority of readers try to access the article as "Parkinson disease".  Beyond that, my view of this sort of renaming is that it was poorly justified from the start and has been falling out of popularity in the community. Looie496 (talk) 15:06, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * You forgot to consider the manner of reaching this page. Majority of viewers come here through search engines which always point to the main article page, not redirect, whatever the title; little traffic comes to Wikipedia from other sites. Once article page is moved/renamed, you will see similar traffic for new title. — kashmiri  TALK  15:14, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * And when you type stuff into the searchbox it auto populates with terms to articles not redirects. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 17:08, 27 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Oppose. The citations in the article use the possessive in their titles at a 75:16 ratio. We should follow the sources. LeadSongDog come howl!  21:40, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've looked at quite a number of related articles, and they seem to universally use "Parkinson's" instead of "Parkinson". Lou Sander (talk) 08:23, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. I put the alternate name into the article, but somebody deleted it without explanation. Someone with more knowledge of ICD 10 than I have should reinsert the alternative name. If Wikipedia doesn't use it, at least we should inform our readers about it. Lou Sander (talk) 03:59, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I am seeing lots of alternative names in the infobox such as "Parkinson disease, idiopathic or primary parkinsonism, hypokinetic rigid syndrome, paralysis agitans" Which do you feel is missing? Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 18:16, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

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"There is little prospect of significant new PD treatments in the near future."
The article referenced for this statement is from 2010. Does it make sense to still have this statement here or at least update it with a source from past year or so? 96.83.14.81 (talk) 18:49, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The entire research section seems dated. Sizeofint (talk) 04:52, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

BMJ review
A while ago, I asked BMJ to provide reviewers for this article, which they did. I've been waiting for the reviewers to get back to resolve some issues, but haven't heard from them for quite some time, so I've summarised the review and the reviewers' proposed changes and posted them in the tables below. Each table contains all affected paragraphs in one article section. Unaffected sections aren't there, and only affected paragraphs are included. The article has changed a little since the review began, mainly in the lede, so, in a couple of cases, the hand-made "diff" in the left column doesn't reflect the current state of the article.

Feel free to comment/discuss below each table or, if you think the proposed suggestion is uncontroversial, go ahead and make the change to the article and mention your implementation (with a diff) in a comment below the relevant table.

I've tried to find a source to support each proposed change, and cite the source in the adjacent right-hand column, but I don't have access to a university library any more, so a few of their proposed changes will need sources. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 05:03, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Reviewers

 * David Burn (DJB)
 * Mark Kuijf (MK)
 * Anthony Lang (AEL)
 * Andrew Lees (AJL)
 * Mark Stacy (MS)

Wikipedia facilitators

 * Anthony Cole (AHC)
 * Stuart Ray User:soupvector (SR)

Discussion
Is someone going to integrate these suggested changes? Sizeofint (talk) 00:42, 21 April 2017 (UTC)