What are the 15 Symptoms Indicating Parkinson's Disease?

7. Secondary Motor Symptoms

Secondary motor symptoms of Parkinson's include speech difficulties, stooped posture, and restless, fidgety movements called akathisia, which may also be a side effect of the medications used to treat the disease. Physicians will also evaluate reported symptoms such as unwanted accelerations in movement or speech. Many people begin to experience difficulty with precise hand movements, such as working a computer mouse or sewing. Micrographia is a change in a person's handwriting resulting from bradykinesia; the individual's handwriting becomes much smaller and the words crowd together. This may emerge as an early symptom, but is not present in every person with Parkinson's.