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Can golf improve your balance?
People with Parkinson’s disease are at an increased risk for falls because of changes in movement, decline in balance, and changes in how...
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Jun 14, 20221 min read
Make sure to use your sunscreen!
You may be wondering why applying sunscreen is important, besides being a generally healthy behavior. There is a correlation between...
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Jun 7, 20222 min read
Step it Up! How Walking Poles Can Help You Be More Active
When you think of Nordic poles you may think of wintertime sports like skiing, but there are many benefits for using them for outdoor...
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May 31, 20222 min read
Decreasing rigidity can decrease the risk of falls
Rigidity is a common symptom of Parkinson’s Disease (PD). It can be an increase in stiffness or tightness in someone’s muscles and can...
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May 24, 20222 min read
Fatigue: a common, yet under-recognized symptom in people with Parkinson’s Disease
Fatigue can be described as having decreased energy or an increased perception of effort that does not match the attempted activity. For...
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May 17, 20222 min read
Pain in Parkinson’s: How can it be treated?
Having an understanding of how pain works and how having Parkinson’s disease (PD) can exacerbate pain can be helpful in better...
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May 10, 20222 min read
Pain in Parkinson’s: Why you may experience more pain with Parkinson's Disease
Pain is a sensation that is difficult to understand in people with or without Parkinson’s Disease (PD). How pain is perceived is a long...
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May 8, 20222 min read
Research Review: Should respiratory muscle training be part of the treatment of Parkinson’s disease?
People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience movement problems due to difficulty with communication between the nervous system and the...
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Apr 29, 20221 min read
Research Review: Occupational Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
Occupational therapy is a science-driven, evidence-based profession that enables people of all ages to participate in daily living or...
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Apr 23, 20222 min read
Empowering Everyday Living: OT Strategies for Fall Prevention
As I mentioned in the previous blog post, How OT Can Help, I have been an OT for 20 years and I hear a lot of things from clients about...
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Apr 14, 20223 min read
Empowering Everyday Living: OT Tips for Handwriting
For people with Parkinson’s disease (PD), writing can be a challenge because of micrographia and tremor. Micrographia — small handwriting...
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Apr 9, 20222 min read
Empowering Everyday Living: OT Tools for Self Care
Occupations — the meaningful and purposeful everyday activities that you need and want to do — can be roughly divided into 3 types:...
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Apr 2, 20223 min read
Empowering Everyday Living: How Occupational Therapy Can Help. By Cassie Lorie OTR/L
”Occupation is not (only) what you have to do but what you like to do, too. It really changed my whole perspective on using PT and OT and...
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Mar 26, 20222 min read
Research Review: Dyspnea (Shortness of Breath) in PD
Respiratory problems have been associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) since it was first documented by James Parkinson in 1817. The...
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Mar 12, 20221 min read
Improving Your Posture for Better Breathing
Improving your posture can have many positive effects — decreasing stress on your joints, reducing fatigue, preventing injury and...
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Mar 5, 20222 min read
Breathe Easy: Tips for Managing Stress and Anxiety
Deep breathing is a proven way to lower stress. Breathing deeply signals to your brain and body to calm down and relax. This relaxation...
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Feb 26, 20222 min read
Boxing and PD - Learn how to punch back
There is growing evidence that vigorous exercise may have a neuroprotective effect for people with PD and that this type of exercise can...
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Feb 19, 20221 min read
Cycling Your Way to Feeling Better
Cycling has been shown to be an effective exercise to help manage PD. A researcher at the Cleveland clinic, Dr. Jay Alberts, discovered...
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Feb 12, 20221 min read
Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Function in PD
Exercise has been shown to have many positive physical effects for people with PD including improved balance, posture, and mobility. But...
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Feb 5, 20223 min read
High Intensity Exercises: A key to your action plan!
Exercise is medicine when it comes to many conditions, with Parkinson's Disease not being an exception. Over the past 5-10 years there...
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Jan 29, 20221 min read
Research Review: Benefits of High Intensity Exercise for PD
A recent (2019) study in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences looked at the effect of an 8-week high intensity aerobic exercise...
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Jan 22, 20221 min read
Stretches to Reduce Rigidity
Rigidity is one of the primary symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, affecting up to 89% of people with PD. Rigidity is felt as stiffness of...
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Jan 15, 20222 min read
Why Weight Training?
Exercise has SO MANY benefits for people with PD including improving the brain’s ability to use dopamine, slowing disease progression...
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