Category: Parkinson’s News

One of Michael J. Fox’s daughters is getting married next year, and he looks forward to being there. “I won’t dance well, but I will dance,” he said.

TKO Parkinson’s is a free program hosted three days a week in Louisville that provides an exercise outlet for those living with the disease.

When a group of Georgians with Parkinson’s disease gets together to play pickleball, they forget about their diagnosis.

The Parkinson’s Support Group will be meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 24 from 2-3:30 p.m. in the Gainey Room at the Owatonna Public Library.

A physiotherapist, Prof. Matthew Olaogun, has said that at least 78 per cent of Nigerians of 60 years and above are at the mercy of Parkinson’s disease. Olaogun said this on Tuesday at the 7th Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Association of Clinical and Academic Physiotherapists of Nigeria (ACAPN) at the University […]

Earlier this year, the I Can Therapy Centre were asked about the support that the Centre can provide for those with Parkinson’s.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – People from around the community gathered for the 24th annual P.O.P walk. The People of Parkinson’s Walk is an annual fundraiser for the CSRA Parkinson’s Sup…

A CHARITY is ploughing nearly £400,000 into ground-breaking research in a bid to crack the main causes of Parkinson’s which affects thousands of Scots each year – including Sir Billy Connolly…

Jay Alberts, PhD, the Edward F. and Barbara A. Bell Endowed Chair at Cleveland Clinic, provided comment on a recently published randomized controlled trial assessing the therapeutic potential of an augmented reality program for postural instability and gait dysfunction in Parkinson disease.

Voting on the $241 million loan for recreation centres in Kelowna has ended.The city has been going through the alternative approval process to secure a $241 million loan to redevelop the Parkinson recreation centre, build the Glenmore and Mission Activity Centres, and redevelop the Rutland sports fields.Residents were able to vote on whether the city could get this loan, the voting closed yesterday, Oct. 13.READ MORE: Opponents of Kelowna’s Parkinson Recreation Centre battling ‘loophole’Under the alternative approval process the city gets residents’ approval for the loan if less than 10 per cent of residents vote.Only 3.4 per cent, or 4,153, people voted against the project, there needed to be 12,160 ‘no’ votes to deny the loan.City council will be deciding whether to go through with the loan at the regular meeting on Monday, Oct. 16.To contact a reporter for this story, email Jesse Tomas or call 250-488-3065 or email the editor. You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom and be entered to win a monthly prize draw.We welcome your comments and opinions on our stories but play nice. We won’t censor or delete comments unless they contain off-topic statements or links, unnecessary vulgarity, false facts, spam or obviously fake profiles. If you have any concerns about what you see in comments, email the editor in the link above. SUBSCRIBE to our awesome newsletter here.