In this video from Invigorate Physical Therapy and Wellness, founder Sarah King shares her top three tips for Parkinson’s patients to improve their quality of life.
Ms. King’s first tip is to treat exercise as another medication you need to take regularly to control your Parkinson’s disease. Regular exercise helps Parkinson’s patients use dopamine more effectively and improves general overall health.
King also advises patients to cut out junk food and to buy organic fruit and vegetables. If patients find the cost too prohibitive then they should at least check which fruits and vegetables are part of the “dirty dozen” (most affected by harmful chemicals) and buy those organic.
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I have Parkinsons. I am 60 years old. My mother is 84 and also has Parkinsons. Until the age of 57 I would run 8km everyday, walk 3 and do cardiovascular exercises for 60min. Then it all came tumbling down. I fell, hanging curtains at midnight after finally moving out of the family home, we had built 30 years before. I shattered my left tiabia plateau and fibia, a Grade 8 Schatzker, fracture, the worst. Usually, amputation is necessary, but being healthy, my daughter declined the authorisation for the amputation. I was too drugged out on morphine, having waited 14 hours before calling an ambulance. The rehab was a full year and now 2 years later I have been diagnosed with Parkinsons. Every time I hear exercise I cringe. The pain, not on the knee itself but on the bulbous lumps on my tibia, where nuts, bolts, meshing and cadaver bone repaired my fracture, can endure a maximum of 15min walking and it feels like a hot stake is peercing my skin though to my bone. I have been in denial about having Parkinsons for 10 years and I guess regular exercise was my proof. Now, I really need a back up besides exercise. Yes, I agree with healthy eating but in my mobily I feel as though I am as limited as my 84 year old mother.
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