Kathleen - people in your town must look where they're going when they shop - my neighbours don't - eek....
 > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:24:41 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Falling....help please
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> I have never understood the wide use of the standard-issue cane, which
> seems to me an invitation to walk bent and "old." Walking sticks rock
> 
> Regarding walkers: my favorite rolling walker is a supermarket cart. The
> perfect walking aid...and I do enjoy cruisin' down the cereal aisle to the
> beat of the oldies they play at the Shop Rite!
> 
> Grocery shopping was my mother's main form of exercise in her last years.
> We would choose parking places by their proximity to a cart, not to the
> store.
> 
> Kathleen
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> On 24 October 2012 02:17, Meg Duggan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > There was actually a bit of movement on the idea of walking sticks vs
> > walkers. Found to be so much better, posturally, dare I say for center of
> > gravity for pwp? The idea was that a waking stick kept arms high , vision
> > up and forward etc. it's so hard to keep abreast of these ideas , but the
> > waking stick thing had real efficacy as I recall.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Oct 23, 2012, at 5:29 AM, mschild <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > >> It's actually a humorous and instructive way to describe it.
> > > Yes, one that stuck in my mind at least even after so many years. We
> > were told that during my physiotherapy  training whilst decomposing the
> > walk movements and it is true.
> > > Learning to fall properly is a good idea but unfortunately one would
> > have to keep up with it all one´s life so it becomes a reflex and an
> > automatism. Automatic movements remain a long time in PD but most of the
> > time, people did judo or other such sports in their youth or young
> > adulthood and this falling reflex has gone by the time they have PD.
> > > And you don´t always fall where you have enough space, like in a dojo.
> > > John for a long time felt comfortable with 2 canes, the outdoor hiking
> > type which help keep a normal movement.  People always walks better on
> > their own rather then ´helped´ by someone who tends to push-restrain rather
> > then really help.Then he had to have a walker indoors and the Ustep was the
> > best choice.
> > >
> > > maryse
> > >
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