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LITTLETON, Colo. — The number of people living with Parkinson's disease in the United States is expected to rise to roughly 1.2 million by 2030, according to the Parkinson's Foundation.
"I literally couldn't make my hand write. I couldn't fill out forms, I couldn't write letters, I stopped doing Christmas cards. That kind of thing you don't think of as a loss but it is. It hits you," said Cone. Dr. VanSickle performs a lesser-known treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation . Electrodes are placed in the brain via surgery and connected to a generator that's placed in the patient's chest, which sends signal pulses to the brain, controlling most movement symptoms.
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