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Washington Post: She fell more than 30 times. For three years, doctors couldn’t explain why.

April 27, 2020 By Parkinson's Community Help

At first, Hardy-Fanta thought her repeated stumbles had a simple cause: She was distracted. But when she racked up more than 30 falls in a three-year period — some for no apparent reason — she repeatedly asked her doctors whether an undiagnosed medical problem might be causing her to “drop like a log.”

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