Category: balance

Neuro-Rehabilitation Through Optometry

What do glasses, prisoms and color have to do with Parkinson’s Disease? Dr. Janet Kohtz, a Neuro Optometrist, explains how glasses and neuro-rehabilitation therapy can possitively impact persons who currently experience the symptoms pf Parkinsons Disease. Her patients have been able to adjust their posture, balance and gait to free themselves from walkers. For further information about how  neuro-rehabilitation therapy can help to reverse Parkinsons symptoms, visit www.optometrists.org/Riverside

 

Feldenkrais® for Parkinson’s

Irene Pasternack [http://movebeyondlimits.com] tells us how you can use the Feldenkrais® Method to improve your balance, prevent falls, cope with freezing, maintain facial mobility, speech volume and swallowing, and find greater comfort and ease in day-to-day activities. The show includes a short Feldenkrais® lesson to improve posture, comfort and stability in sitting. In addition to making you feel more comfortable, this lesson helps improve the mobility of your neck, head, and eyes, and has a direct impact on your balance in standing.

Irene Pasternack discusses how Feldenkrais® is useful for treating a wide variety of symptoms that are found in a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease.

The Magic of Dance for Parkinson’s: Pamela Quinn

Pamela Quinn danced professionally for 20 years with ODC/San Francisco and with actor/writer MichaelO’Connor before being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at age 42. Recently, she made a video entitled ‘Welcome to our World”, which shared first prize at the 2010 World Parkinson Congress. Pamela has developed an amazing range of creative movements, exercises and dances that have helped herself and others cope with the many and various symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Learn more about her at www.pamelaquinn.net