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Dr. Becky Farley is our guest speaker on this episode.  Dr. Farley is the CRO/Founder of the Parkinson’s Wellness Recovery or PWR! and a well recognized guru in PD exercise.  We also speak with the PD program director at a local JCC that offers PWR classes.  We talk about why we should exercise and what

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

Our first podcast episode covered the medications used for the motor symptoms experienced by Parkinson’s patients.  Back by popular demand, Dr. David Shprecher will explain the non-motor symptoms of the disease and what medications are used to treat each of these. This is a very informative episode you will want to listen to at least

In this episode, we are talking with organizations well known for funding research in the Parkinson’s field – including MJFF and PF. We speak with the experts about the future in treating the symptoms, halting the progression and curing PD.  And, we will speak to a PD patient who has a fascinating story and readily

In this episode of The Parkinson’s Experience podcast, we continue our discussion on Opening Your Mind to DBS or Deep Brain Stimulation. In Part 1, a leading Movement Disorder Specialist discussed how DBS is a standard of care as well as who should consider it and why.  In Part 2, we speak with one of

Let’s be frank. Deep brain stimulation or DBS is brain surgery. The old joke comparing various tasks to ‘not being brain surgery’ is meant to compare that task to the difficulty of brain surgery.  However, in 2020, it is best to keep an ‘open mind’ to DBS.  DBS is now a standard of care for