Parkinson’s forum set

The Parkinson’s Support Group of the Philippines (PSGP) Foundation will hold its meeting on March 16, 12:30 p.m., at the 14th floor auditorium of the Cathedral Heights building complex at the South Tower of St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City.

The meeting is free and open to the public, and is being sponsored by St. Luke’s.

The PSGP is a registered non-profit organization that was founded in 1999, and aims to provide support to families and patients with Parkinson’s disease, parkinsonism, tremor, dystonia, and other movement disorders. 

Its founding chairman was the late former Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez. 

The meeting on Sunday will start off with a lecture on the role of various hormones in causing Parkinson’s or parkinsonism by one of the top endocrinologists of the country, Dr. Myrna Buenaluz.

This will be followed by a demonstration of the effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the first patient with Lubag or X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism who underwent successful DBS surgery.

DBS is a neurosurgical procedure that effectively alleviates tremor, parkinsonism, and dystonia (twisting), especially when medications are no longer efficacious.

For more information, interested parties can contact the PSGP at 631-1531 or the Movement Disorders Center of St. Luke’s at 727-5552.