Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder that causes a wide variety of movement-related symptoms including resting ...
Recent research indicates a novel risk factor for Parkinson’s among Black populations. Many Black people don’t know they have ...
Pedaling for Parkinson’s™ will provide Parkinson’s patients and their caregivers the opportunity to engage in forced exercise ...
As study lead author Dr. Philip Millar explained, Parkinson's patients are too often overwhelmed ... regardless of the intensity of the exercise program Gait, balance and blood pressure did ...
A few years ago, the organizers of one of the largest U.S. exercise programs for people with Parkinson’s disease realized they had a problem: Most of the students were White. “We’re always ...
It later expanded to welcome anyone with Parkinson’s. Affiliate gyms are ... Wellstar Health System. “The program is thoughtfully tailored with a regime of exercises for strengthening, balance ...
Exercise is known as one of the best weapons in limiting the effects of the disease and creating dopamine that is low for ...
PMC’s former executive director, Deb Colling, is now serving as director of fitness at the Bingham Farms-based Michigan Parkinson Foundation. Parkinson’s Movement Center's non-contact boxing program ...
But people who run Parkinson’s exercise programs in Chicago and elsewhere say it’s been hard to get Black people to sign up. Eric Johnson, founder and CEO of Movement Revolution, says fitness ...