Getting enough exercise is important to every person for numerous reasons. However, for the Parkinson’s patient it seems to possibly be even more important. For the PD patient, muscle weakness, coordination or balance issues, fatigue, mood fluctuations and other changes that happen over time can be improved by adding exercises to your weekly routine.
In the next 2 episodes, we speak with well recognized PD fitness experts, Nate Coomer with the Parkinson’s Fitness Project and Dr. Becky Farley the founder of Parkinson’s Wellness Recovery or PWR!. Both have spent their careers working to improve the PD patient’s quality of life through exercise. We discuss not only why but what exercises are most helpful. And, how best to carry on when we are unable to go to a gym during the coronavirus crisis. You don’t want to miss these episodes.
Thank you to my sponsor, Medtronic. Medtronic is the maker of Percept™ PC, a Neurostimulator with BrainSense™ Technology. It is the first and only DBS system in the U.S. with this groundbreaking BrainSense™ technology that allows clinicians to capture a patient’s brain signals, enabling more data-driven, personalized treatment for patients with neurologic disorders, such Parkinson’s disease.
Nate Coomer is fantastic. He has a real feel for rhe PD patient and I appreciate that. I exercise daily now but I can’t wait to go on Daily Dose PD.
On a side note I am also fascinated by the mew3 Medtronic product and am anxious to find out more about that from my neurologist.
Thank you for this informative podcast. I actually subscribed to daily dose PD and my only problem is that I can find an excuse to not do the class live. I think doing it live is the best because it’s a better commitment but I love having the option to do any of the exercises on my own schedule. I was sitting very comfortably during most of the podcast and felt guilty and started to get up and do some stretches and suddenly Nate mentioned that very topic!