Happy Valentine’s Day
In the fictional world many of us try to live in for much of our lives, Valentine’s Day means flowers and valentine cards and boxes of chocolates – all lovely […]
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Physical Exercise
More Walking for Parkinson’s – and I Mean MORE
Last week I posted a review of Chapter 2 of Norman Doidge’s book, The Brain’s Way of Healing. The chapter was titled “A Man Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms: How Exercise Helps
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Announcing: Ping Pong Parkinson Championship
What: Ping Pong Tournament for People with Parkinson’s Disease When: Saturday, February 17, 12:00 noon Where: Westchester Table Tennis Center (175 Tompkins Ave., Pleasantville, NY 10570) – easily accessible by
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Review: “A Man Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms”
A psychiatrist recently suggested I read Chapter 2 of The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontier of Neuroplasticity, by Norman Doidge, MD. Chapter 2 is
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Ping Pong’s Potential for Parkinson’s
Here’s an update on ping pong’s potential for helping people with Parkinson’s disease. (To read my earlier ping pong posts, just click: click! click! click! click! click! click! click!) CBSN just aired
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High Intensity Workouts May Slow PD Progression for the Newly Diagnosed
The NY Times reported this week on a research study which found that high-intensity treadmill training slowed the progression of Parkinson’s disease in Parkies who were “newly diagnosed” (that is,
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“Golden Boy” Update: Boxing, Acting, Defeating Parkinson’s
After I posted yesterday about the revival of the 1937 play “Golden Boy,” one of the people involved with the project (and with the organization which is sponsoring it, stoPD),
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“Golden Boy” w/ Parkinson’s
The local NPR radio station in New York, WNYC, just interviewed three people involved in a revival of Clifford Odet’s 1937 play, “Golden Boy.” The play focuses on a young
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Parky Climbs Mt. Beacon
It’s a gorgeous fall weekend, and my husband and I are going to climb Mt. Beacon, one hour north of us on the Hudson River. There’s room in my backpack
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Review: The Parkinson’s Playbook, by Robert Smith
Robert Smith, a retired landscaping architect who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2006, has just come out with a book that explains how he turned his life around five
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