No. There is no cure for Parkinson's disease and nothing yet shown to stop the underlying process. What treatment does achieve is substantial and often lasts years: symptoms can be controlled well enough that daily life continues largely as before.
No. There is no cure for Parkinson's disease and nothing yet shown to stop the underlying process. What treatment does achieve is substantial and often lasts years: symptoms can be controlled well enough that daily life continues largely as before.
The disease involves progressive loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra, along with the spread of abnormal alpha-synuclein protein. Treatment replaces or supports the missing dopamine, which addresses the consequence rather than the process, so symptoms improve while the underlying loss continues. By the time motor symptoms appear a substantial proportion of those neurons are already gone, which is part of why protecting them afterwards has proved so difficult and why trials aimed at slowing progression have not yet succeeded.
Considerably more than the word incurable suggests. Levodopa is reliably effective and remains so for many years; the response is often good enough that an observer would not know. Dopamine agonists and MAO-B inhibitors are alternatives or additions. Non-motor symptoms - constipation, bladder urgency, blood pressure drops, sleep, mood - are each treatable in their own right and affect quality of life at least as much as tremor. Regular vigorous exercise has the most consistent evidence of any intervention for maintaining function.
Deep brain stimulation and focused ultrasound produce real improvements in tremor, fluctuations and dyskinesia in suitable patients, sometimes dramatically. Neither is a cure. They modulate the circuits that produce symptoms; the underlying degeneration continues, and the features that respond least to medication - balance, swallowing, cognition - generally do not respond to stimulation either. This practice performs no surgery and implants no devices, so assessment is arranged at a centre that provides them while medical management continues here.
Because there is no cure, this condition attracts claims. Be cautious of anything promising to reverse Parkinson's disease, of stem cell treatments sold outside a registered clinical trial, and of supplements marketed as neuroprotective on the basis of laboratory work alone. Legitimate trials of disease-modifying treatment exist and are worth asking about; they are run through academic centres and do not charge for the treatment. Adults 18 and older are seen at either office, alongside primary care.
Clinical Neurology Specialists has been physician-owned since 1998, when Leo Germin, M.D., FAANEM founded it. Five board-certified neurologists and four advanced practice providers see patients at the Las Vegas and Henderson offices, each with its own AANEM-accredited electrodiagnostic laboratory.
Clinical Neurology Specialists is an adult outpatient neurology practice for patients 18 and older. The practice performs no surgery and operates no imaging suite, infusion suite or interventional pain programme, and provides no emergency or inpatient care.
Physician-reviewed. Reviewed by the physicians of Clinical Neurology Specialists — board-certified neurologists, AANEM-accredited electrodiagnostic laboratories, physician-owned since 1998. Reviewed 1 August 2026. This article is general education for adults 18 and older and is not a substitute for a consultation.
Sources and further reading: MedlinePlus: Parkinson's disease; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; American Academy of Neurology.
Adults 18 and older, at the Las Vegas and Henderson offices. Call 702-804-1212 or request an appointment online.