Footage shows a Parkinson's sufferer's "life-changing" transformation after taking a new wonder treatment - for just one week.<br /><br />Damian Gath, 52, who previously went to the gym four times a week, was diagnosed with the incurable brain condition - which causes involuntary shaking - ten years ago.<br /><br />He was forced to take four separate oral drugs six times a day to help control his tremors and had to give up his job as a top boss at a communications firm.<br /><br />But in June, he became one of the first patients in England to be given Produodopa - a treatment administered via a portable pump under his skin.<br /><br />And dramatic video revealed how Damian - who previously struggled to control his upper body movements - could easily make a cup of coffee just seven days later.<br /><br />Speaking about the incredible changes he said: "It’s been extraordinary and life-changing.<br /><br />“Just shortly after first having the treatment, I was able to make a cup of coffee more easily and go to the supermarket.<br /><br />“The massive difference is that there are now no fluctuations.<br /><br />“But the most dramatic experience is the loss of pain and the ability to move a lot more normally for a lot longer than I used to.<br /><br />“I used to go to the gym four times a week and play badminton, so I was very active. <br /><br />“I live near the Peak District and we have some beautiful hikes and walks open to us. I’m hoping I can get back to doing that."<br /><br />Damian from, Borrowash, Derbs., believes his Parkinson’s symptoms began in his mid-30s while working as the head of operations at a communications company.<br /><br />But the very active dad-of-four, who had enjoyed water skiing and clay pigeon shooting, was only diagnosed at 42 after he visited his GP.<br /><br />He said: “I suffered an injury at the gym – I pulled my shoulder and neck.<br /><br />"A few days later, probably over the course of a week, I lost the use of my fingers in my arm. I couldn’t hold a pen and I was dropping cups of tea and bottles.<br /><br />“I thought I’d trapped a nerve in my shoulder, so I went to the hospital the following day in my lunch hour from work."<br /><br />Damian was told to see a neurologist who then broke the shocking news to him that he had Parkinson’s - a disease he previously knew nothing about.<br /><br />He went on: “Literally after 15 minutes the consultant said, 'I’m sorry to say, I think you’ve got Parkinson’s disease.'<br /><br />“His exact words were, ‘It’s an irreversible, incurable degenerative brain disease.’ I was a bit shocked at the time, I was a bit bewildered.”<br /><br />Damian said for the first five years after his diagnosis, he had kept up his fitness and hoped to fight the worst symptoms into his later years.<br /><br />But then the disease began to worsen more rapidly, and after moving into a part-time occupation, he was finally forced to give up work altogether. <br /><br />Damian said he had tried ‘every oral medication on the market’ as he desperately sought to counteract the effects of the degenerative condition.<br /><br />But each one produced a range of side effects that made his day-to-day life a misery.
