Falls and Parkinson's disease

摘要

The paper by Ashburn et al. In this issue of Age and Ageing returns the focus of attention to a cardinal feature of Parkinson's disease-postural instability [1]. While our knowledge of Parkinson's disease (as Judged by peer-reviewed publication) exceeds the general Rate of expansion of medical knowledge, publications On falls in Parkinson's disease have become less frequent In recent years. James Parkinson himself highlighted Postural instability, describing one patient as having 'a tottering gait' and subsequently dying of the consequences of a fall [2].