Objective: To determine the prevalence of pain, types and characteristics of pain and the effect of pain on depression and daily living activities in early and advanced stages of PD

Background: Pain is one of the most disabling, non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD).It causes significant limitations in daily living activities and movements.

Methods: In our study we evaluated 50 early and 50 advanced phase non-demented PD patients diagnosed with Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. 100 age and gender matched healty individuals were included as the control group. Questionnaire which included questions about the pain characteristics, was administered to the patients and control groups.

Results: In our study, there was no significant difference between the groups in terms of age and sex. There were statistically significant difference between pain in PD and control groups(p=0.007). When the patients were evaluated in terms of other non-motor symptoms (cognitive dysfunction, depression) related to parkinson’s disease, there was a statistically significant difference between the groups (p=0,000).

Conclusions: In our study, we found that the pain, one of the non-motor symptoms in IPD patients, was more frequently seen due to the disease and it severely restricted the daily living activities of the patients. Considering the results of the evaluation, we think that a more detailed investigation of the pain complaints, during the evaluation and follow up of the patients, improves the daily living activities and the sucess rate of treatment.

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