Deep Brain Stimulation – Parkinson's Disease Treatment
In the treatment of Parkinson's disease, we use a device called a deep brain pacemaker to treat advanced Parkinson's patients who cannot be treated with medication. Details of this treatment are available on many websites online.
We monitor patients under neurological supervision. We regulate their medication. If medication is insufficient and we believe, based on examinations, that the patient would benefit from deep brain stimulation, we perform the necessary procedures and proceed with surgery.
Below are some before and after images of patients whom I treated with surgery under my supervision. In the videos you will watch, neurologist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Güney Şenol, with whom we monitored the patients, is examining the patients.
In the video above, you saw a comparison of how a Parkinson's patient's gait changed before and after surgery, walking the same distance in the same room. The window on the left shows the patient's gait before surgery, and the window on the right shows the patient's gait approximately one month after surgery, simultaneously.
In the video above, you watched a patient who, before surgery, was unable to meet their own needs, unable to drink water or eat food, and then saw the control they gained over their hands after the operation. Our patient started eating on their own after the surgery.