I just started biking did a couple easy flat miles yesterday. I only had a small wipe out In the sand, no injuries. I haven't ridden in years. It felt like I was flying....
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On Jan 9, 2011, at 9:13 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
I read this article yesterday and I was wondering if you are riding your
bike a lot during the week. I called you on Sat. on my way to the hair
salon and hoped that you are feeling ok.
Stay hopeful. There is so much research going on re PD.
I will call GE tomorrow as my icemaker motor has been making loud noises
and some plastic within the Icemaker has broken and fallen out. It is too bad
that I did not take out a maintenance service contract as without it, I
have paid out more than a contract would have cost me!! (incidentally, I
tried to take out the tray where the cubes are and although I have done it in
the past to empty the tray, this time I was not able to do so - but GE
hopefully will come to fix the refrigerator tomorrow as I will call early a.m.)
i saw The King's Speech yesterday and it is a memorable film. I remember
the King making that speech on the radio when I was about 17. And I recall
some hesitancy in his speech and how somber it was.
Hope you are well. Love, Mom
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It means that 96% of people with PD can ride a bike, but about half of
people with atypical PD (a much worse disease) cannot. I found it interesting
that the ability to ride a bike is retained even though balance and
walking problems are common..
Howard Silverstein, MD
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On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:39 AM, mschild <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Doctors should question those with Parkinson's on cycling ability
Healthcare News
07/01/2011
Whether or not a Parkinson's patient is able to ride a bike could help
doctors
diagnose their specific condition, scientists claim.
Questioning patients on their ability to ride a bike could be a far more
effective Parkinson's disease test than more expensive examinations,
according
to scientists.
Researchers from the Netherlands used brain imaging and other tests on
patients with Parkinson's disease and also on those with atypical
Parkinsonism.
When asked whether they were still able to ride a bicycle, only four per
cent
of those with standard Parkinson's said they were no longer able to
while 52
per cent of participants with atypical Parkinsonism said they could not.
Researchers wrote a letter published in the Lancet that said that the
question
of whether a patient could ride a bike or not could prove a "red flag"
for
clinicians.
"This skilled task is probably sensitive to subtle problems with balance
or
coordination, caused by the more extensive extranigral pathology in
atypical
parkinsonism," said the letter.
Meanwhile, researchers from the University of Texas Health Science
Center have
found that a drug used in the treatment of leukaemia could be used to
slow the
progression of Parkinson's disease.
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