A blog for Parkinson's education, research advances, new treatment strategies, and personal reflection: the goal is to provide support and information/resources to anyone either with Parkinson’s disease or with any neurodegenerative disorder.
"Because you are alive, everything is possible." Thich Nhat Hanh "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou 2019 Parkinson's Awareness Month: To help support the month of Parkinson's awareness, here are 4-posts from April- •2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month- 12 Rules of Life With Exercise •2019 …
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"Hope is passion for what is possible." Soren Kierkegaard "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." Emil Brunner 2019 Parkinson's Awareness Month: To help support the month of Parkinson's awareness, here are 3-posts from earlier in April-•2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month- 12 Rules of Life With Exercise•2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month …
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.“ William James "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryun Part 2 of Parkinson’s Awareness Month is Dedicated to Exercise:Introduction to Parkinson's:What is Parkinson’s Disease? Parkinson’s usually presents as a motor system disorder that results from the loss …
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"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health." Hippocrates "Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health." William Osler Introduction: April is Parkinson's Awareness Month. I am convinced …
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"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs." Victor Hugo “Never, never, never give in!” Winston S. Churchill Perseverance Defined: <per·se·ver·ance /ˌpərsəˈvirəns/ noun> I really like the description given by vocabulary.com, "Perseverance is not giving up. It is persistence and tenacity, the effort required to do something and keep doing it till the end, even if it's hard. With …
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." Calvin Coolidge "The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln Introduction: Recently, Jeff Keegan asked me if I had seen the paper by Gil-Martínez et al., an established Parkinson's research group …
"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain." Bob Dylan "You feel your strength in the experience of pain." Jim Morrison An Aging Population with Chronic Pain: The definition of chronic pain is pain that continues beyond the expected time of healing. Chronic pain can increase frailty, and it's linked to falls, sleep disruption, …
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