This is the second of three webinars in a new “Let’s Keep Moving with APDA: Your PD Exercise Toolkit” series by the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA). The speaker is a physical therapist with the APDA National Rehabilitation Resource Center for Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The focus of the Thursday, November 18th webinar is how to plan your fitness program so you know how often to exercise and how hard to work.
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Everyone should exercise for physical and mental well-being. But being active is particularly important for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). A recent PD Active webinar focused on the effects of exercise on Parkinson’s disease, including motor function improvement, cognitive function improvement, neuro-transmitters equilibrium, and oxidative stress reduction. We at Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach attended the webinar and are sharing our notes below.
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This is a terrific review of a bunch of Parkinson’s-related research. One Danish study found that “people with PD were 1.73 times likelier than controls to have been infected with influenza at least a decade prior.” And two studies “reinforce[d] a tried-and-true method of staving” off PD — exercise.
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In October, the Parkinson Association of Northern California (PANC) hosted a session on the prodrome of Parkinson’s disease (PD). A “prodrome” is when we can see some symptoms of early Parkinson’s disease (PD) but not enough to warrant a diagnosis. Another term for prodrome is “preclinical.” The session focused on the prodromal stage’s symptoms and genes that may predict a future PD diagnosis. The speaker was movement disorder specialist Dr. Kathleen Poston, with Stanford. The session was part of the PANC’s 2021 Annual Education Conference.
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In this recent Movement Disorder Society hour-long podcast, well-known movement disorder specialist Dr. Stanley Fahn discusses the “most impactful paper” in movement disorders in the 20th century: the 1967 research article by George Kotzias, et al, about levodopa therapy. Dr. Fahn addresses the origins of levodopa therapy for PD in the 1960s and how that generated an explosion of interest and research in dopamine’s role in movement disorders.
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