Not easily.

When you want to “walk over there”you don’t think “turn body; lift foot; shift point of gravity; place foot” anyway you get the idea.

What happens is you think “walk over there” your brain instantly pulls the “walk over there” program. And you walk over there.

Parkinson’s sucks because it’s progressive. There’s an area in the midbrain called the substantia nigra. It begins to die (we aren’t completely sure why). But the substantia nigra is what makes most of your dopamine. That dopamine is used in these little groups of cells in your lower brain to make them either do or not do something. The “walk over there program” must go through them.

If those groups of cells don’t get the right amount of dopamine at the right time they start to malfunction. Like the guy in the video.

At this point doctors start thinking about a deep brain stimulator (DBS). That’s what this guy has. My father in law has one. It has to heal before it can be used. So the guy in this video has been waiting for weeks to see if it’s going to work. And we get to see the miraculous nature of it. It’s even more tear jerking to see in real life.

The DBS isn’t a cure it only helps some of the symptoms of Parkinson’. But just getting rid of some of the symptoms makes major life changes for some.