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Living with Parkinson's Disease - Meet others & come say hi
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This is very true, @kshansen. No two PD patients have the same symptoms or respond similarly to the same treatment. The one thing that is helpful to most with PD is exercise. How long have you had PD?
You mention difficulty moving your legs and arms. There are some great YouTube videos that you can try once your PT ends. If you go to YouTube and search for Exercises for PD, you will find lots of chair and/or standing videos that will help you work on the ability to move different sides of your body at the same time.
One of my favorite YouTube channels is yes2next. While it is not specifically for PD, it is a great way to practice the movements you mentioned and gain flexibility.
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My worst time with movement is early in the day, to me early in the day used to be 6:00am the last couple years it is more like noon! Not saying I have what I would call major problem moving but it can be too easy to just kick back in the recliner at times.
The neurologist I have been seeing gave me a set of exercises to do three times a day, from climbing the wall, squats and stretches, and five minutes punching a pillow hanging on the wall then half an hour walking on a tread mill or a couple laps around ten acres of lawn on warmer days.
As for how long I've had PD I would have to say going on two years. One other problem I would say I have is memory problems. I do not recall, but could be wrong, that I did not have these problems before I was in an accident while riding a Vespa. I was coming to a stop behind wife on her three wheel motorcycle. Next thing I can recall was being in a hospital in Rochester NY. I only have a couple short(very short) memories of couple things there and I was there for a week! Not sure but have a feeling they did not care at all about me or my wife. Lucky for her other than damage to her ride from me being ramed in to it she did not get injured.
I have been doing PT twice a week for a few months if nothing else that does help with my emotional feelings a bit. Not sure how much longer my health insurance will help pay for that!
I'll close there as I can get way off topic at time these days!