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Tigard Times Newspaper Article

Kimberly Berg gives Parkinson’s the old one, two with boxing classes

Created on Wednesday, 01 July 2015 22:32 | Written by Geoff Pursinger

Pat & Kimberly Berg slip-boxing

Tigard boxing class aims to help with Parkinson’s symptoms.

Music blares from speakers at Next Level Mixed Martial Arts in Tigard as Pat Sousa punches the air in time to a soundtrack of 1980s jams.
Sousa has been taking boxing lessons at the gym two days a week for months, but he says he has no intention of ever hitting anyone.
Instead, he’s going toe-to-toe with a very different kind of foe. He’s fighting Parkinson’s disease. Continue reading “Tigard Times Newspaper Article”