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How to Use Your Noodle to Improve Parkinson’s Upper Back Rotation
With Parkinson’s disease, the upper back gets really rigid and stiff. This rigidity, compounded by forward rounding, prevents it from rotating correctly. As a result, the lower back (designed to stabilize, not rotate) must take over, leading to lower back pain. Using pool noodles, this seated exercise can help treat upper back rotation.
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With Parkinson’s disease, the rib cage gets stiff and flexes forward, causing a lack of rotation in the spine. This stiffness, compounded by the “lats” (the muscles in your back that attach to your arms) getting tethered down, causes difficulty when reaching and straightening your arms. When you can’t rotate in your upper back (thoracic spine), your body will start to compensate by rotating and extending parts of your body that are not meant to rotate. This almost always results in shoulder or back pain.
Furthermore, the eyes may have difficulty tracking a moving or stationary object or finding the next line in a book when reading.
Continue reading “Improve Parkinson’s Stiff Back and Eye-Tracking Issues With This Seated Noodle Exercise”Try These Simple Tips for Correcting Your Parkinson’s Seated Posture
When you think of things that might threaten your life, you probably don’t think, “sitting.” However, research shows that sitting too much is one of the biggest potential threats to our health.
“We are sitting ourselves to death. We weren’t designed to sit as much as we do,” says James Levine, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic. “The chair is out to kill us.”
One hour of exercise doesn’t negate long periods of sitting, especially with poor posture. Exercise is vital, but it doesn’t undo the damage done by extended periods of sitting.
Continue reading “Try These Simple Tips for Correcting Your Parkinson’s Seated Posture”Do You Have Stiff, Painful Parkinson’s Shoulders? Do This Easy Dowel Stretch
Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) is very common in people with Parkinson’s. This condition causes pain, stiffness, and loss of normal range of motion in the shoulder.
For people with Parkinson’s, frozen shoulder can come out of nowhere and slowly get worse if not treated. Often, a frozen, painful shoulder occurs because it has been immobilized for a long time by injury, surgery, or illness. Fortunately, the shoulder can usually be unfrozen! Full recovery takes time and a lot of home exercise.
Routinely encouraging your shoulders, shoulder blades, and spine to move is crucial to counteracting shoulder stiffness and pain.
Continue reading “Do You Have Stiff, Painful Parkinson’s Shoulders? Do This Easy Dowel Stretch”Got Parkinson’s? Activate Your Glutes with Bridges and Hoops!
Strong glutes are vital for everyone, and especially if you have Parkinson’s. Your glutes are a very important muscle group for many reasons: they help balance your gait and stance, prevent falls, improve posture, and prevent back, hip, and knee problems. However, most of my private and group clients with back, hip, or knee pain couldn’t fire their glutes when we first started working together. This is very common!
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