I highly recommend anyone with Parkinson's get a basketball or a netball - the weight and feel matters a lot - and just play, feel, stimulate the muscle memories which are still there. Bounce, balance, catch, throw your way back to moving, every single day. Explore, play, be curious. Practice, but make sure you have fun with it. Enjoy whatever movement you can release, no matter how small. Feel good when you manage to extend your range. Feel good factor = dopamine reward = more movement = more feel good - and that is science fact. In the video I am playing by myself, the therapeutic effects are magnified by the social quotient of playing ball with family members and friends by massive amounts.
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In this video, I want to begin to show you what happens when we start to integrate the Out-Thinking Parkinson's strategies into new combined interventions and that, indeed, the whole quickly becomes much greater than the sum of the parts. This, then, represents the Out-Thinking Parkinson's whole. I carried on playing with these ideas for some time after making this video. And then I laughed. I laughed long, loud and deep. It was the type of laugh which hasn't left my lips in over seven years. This is why I decided to call this "A New Hope", because not even PD can withstand the power of Giggles and Glee.
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