Tag: Parkinson’s Disease

Increasing the Exercise Routine

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Our first week at the beach is already over. 🙁 Last Saturday we attended the Parkinson’s Symposium sponsored by The Neuro Challenge Foundation and Sarasota Memorial Hospital. This is an annual event with 500+ attendees and included talks by recognized PD experts followed by a Q & A session afterwards. In between the talks we did two mini exercise sessions which included some voice exercises from the Loud portion of the Big and Loud program. We were joined at the meeting by Joel and Melissa whom we first met at Kripalu and then again here at the beach last year.…

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Clinical Trial Needs, Southern Symposium and NOLA!

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I have previously posted about the need for clinical trial participants.  I have joined Fox rial Finder which has a large database of trials and provides a list of possible research opportunities based on your desired parameters (distance from home, # of years with PD, etc.).  Mara and I recently matched up for a trial being conducted at the University of Alabama Sparks Center, Mara as a control and I as a PD patient.  The trail is called LRRK2 and Other Novel Exosome Proteins in Parkinson’s Disease (that’s a mouthful!)  LRRK2 is one of the genetic markers closely associated with…

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