Porto’s Hospital de São João is to start training foreign doctors on a technique it has been perfecting for years in the treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Deep Brain Stimulation is a surgical procedure used to treat a variety of disabling neurological symptoms, particularly tremor, rigidity, stiffness, slowed movement and walking problems. The Hospital de São João has already treated 250 patients over the years, and now it has opened itself up to training doctors from abroad.
It is “the first time a Portuguese hospital has trained foreign doctors on this innovative technique”, said the hospital revealing that its first students are four Brazilian doctors who will be trained over the period of two days.
