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------ =_NextPart_000_01BCCEB2.7819F980 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Will: =20 I totally agree with your comments about exercise. I am 39 yr. and in = my 15th year of living with PD. I have been doing a exercise routine = for the last year and when I just miss a day or two of doing it my body = gets very stiff and rigid. The only problem I have to deal with is = possible weight loss, which I can't afford. I am still able to drive a = car and most important of all I am able to keep up with my 2 girls. Susan A. Dallas TX 39yrs/dx15yrs -----Original Message----- From: Will A. Kuipers [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 1997 8:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: resubscribe Kathy Barras wrote: <Will, <I believe I missed an earlier posting, but could you please explain = what <kind of program (exercise?) that you have joined? Hello Kathy, This what I wrote earlier about this subject: <Subj.: Physical Therapy exercises <Hi Loretta, <How sweet of you to inquire. <I was like your husband probably. I did not see any useful use for unproductive motions, in spite of the urging <by my wife and daughters. = I thought some walking and doing the maintenance chores were all the = activity I <would need. <I did not realize how much time of the day was spent just sitting. = Muscle stiffness gets progressively worse, <until there are some movements that you cannot make. As they say: "Use it or lose it!!" <These exercises are great and they have helped me loosen up again. <They are done mostly sitting in a chair, except for a number of = exercises in which one stands behind the <chair. <The chair is then really a prop to help balance. <All the muscles get a turn in a good program. You feel wonderful after seriously taking part in an hours worth <of these exercises. Some people = in the group are already at the stage where they can hardly move anything. <They just stare at the therapist and probably in their mind think that they are doing that themselves too. <Others have trouble telling right from left. Nobody is being forced. Everybody can do whatever they think they <can manage. I feel lucky I = can still do most anything. <My neurologist is amazed, when he checks me out that I have apparently still no, or very little, ratcheting <effects when moving neck muscles = and elbows and he finds that I can walk almost normal. After having <been on = a 3 month visit schedule, he moved me to a 6 month schedule. He says: "Whatever you are doing, <keep on doing it. It seems to work!" <I still drive a car and remember that in the first year after diagnosis = I had trouble looking back because of stiff <neck muscles. Now, five years later I can almost turn my head as I used to when young. It hurts a bit now, but <I can move it!=20 <If you have access to a program like that, by all means try to get your husband to join. He'll be glad he did! <Best wishes, <Will Kuipers =20 Dallas, Texas 76-dx'91 <<[log in to unmask] ------ =_NextPart_000_01BCCEB2.7819F980 Content-Type: application/ms-tnef Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 eJ8+IhECAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEEkAYA+AEAAAEAAAAQAAAAAwAAMAIAAAAL AA8OAAAAAAIB/w8BAAAAXAAAAAAAAACBKx+kvqMQGZ1uAN0BD1QCAAAAAFBhcmtpbnNvbidzIElu Zm9ybWF0aW9uIEV4Y2hhbmdlAFNNVFAAUEFSS0lOU05AbGlzdHNlcnYudXRvcm9udG8uY2EAHgAC MAEAAAAFAAAAU01UUAAAAAAeAAMwAQAAAB4AAABQQVJLSU5TTkBsaXN0c2Vydi51dG9yb250by5j YQAAAAMAFQwBAAAAAwD+DwYAAAAeAAEwAQAAACMAAAAnUGFya2luc29uJ3MgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24g RXhjaGFuZ2UnAAACAQswAQAAACMAAABTTVRQOlBBUktJTlNOQExJU1RTRVJWLlVUT1JPTlRPLkNB AAADAAA5AAAAAAsAQDoBAAAAHgD2XwEAAAAhAAAAUGFya2luc29uJ3MgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gRXhj aGFuZ2UAAAAAAgH3XwEAAABcAAAAAAAAAIErH6S+oxAZnW4A3QEPVAIAAAAAUGFya2luc29uJ3Mg SW5mb3JtYXRpb24gRXhjaGFuZ2UAU01UUABQQVJLSU5TTkBsaXN0c2Vydi51dG9yb250by5jYQAD 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