Author: Landtiser

I try to look for hope and good news to share with my readers. If I present a topic my students are concerned with, I look for a possible solution. Not all of your symptoms are Parkinson’s related. It’s easy to blame everything on it, but you are human, and bodies do weird things – even without PD.

A scary symptom of Parkinson’s disease is cognitive decline. What if your problems with cognition was not due to your Parkinson’s, but to hearing loss?

Consider this:

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With the recent passing of former President George H.W. Bush, whose cause of death was listed as “vascular parkinsonism”, many of my fighters are asking me, “What Is Vascular Parkinson’s?”

Vascular (or “multi-infarct”) Parkinson’s is a form of “atypical parkinsonism” in which Parkinson’s symptoms (slow movements, tremor, difficulty with walking and balance, stiffness, and rigidity) are produced by one or more small strokes, rather than by a gradual loss of nerve cells as seen in the more typical neurodegenerative Parkinson’s disease. Typical Parkinson’s is usually considered idiopathic or of unknown cause.

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As a coach, I share plenty of hugs with my fighters and dancers, in addition to my sweet husband. After watching everyone hugging each other at our Parkinson’s year-end party last Saturday night, it made me think… love is a miracle drug. It is such a powerful healing tool. I was able to find some research to support the obvious feeling of joy we get when we receive and give loving affection to people. Continue reading “Why Families with Parkinson’s Need at Least 8 Hugs a Day”