At a Tufts workshop,students learned how to lead people with Parkinson’s disease in movement therapyFrom getting out of bed to walking and even sitting down, we acquire basic movement for granted. But many people with Parkinsons disease can’t count on their bodies to cooperate—the progressive disease affects their mobility in many ways, and often at unexpected times. A person with Parkinson’s can be walking steadily,for example, and all of a sudden freeze, and the connection between mind and legs seemingly broken.
Source: tufts.edu