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Marling McReynolds wrote: > > Tom, > and others, > Since reading all this talk about walking with hands behind back, > arms extended, arms swinging, etc., I spent the last day or so > considering the way I walk. > I have found that I do not like to walk with my arms swinging, > mainly because my right does not swing. It drives me crazy to try to > swing my arms and find the right one hangs while the left swings. > Consequently, I find that most of the time I keep both hands in my > pockets. This keeps me balanced. > > don't forget how to laugh (and do it often) > Marling McReynolds > [log in to unmask] > http://members.tripod.com/~marling Hi guys, Not exactly about falling, (- more exactly about not falling--)! When I was first dagnosed, I was pregnant - so no medication. I was put in a physiotherapy class with a group of octonogerian stroke victims - but the one useful thing I learned, was the physiotherapist's constant cry: " Lead with your arms and your legs will follow". She was always on to me about concentrating on my arm swing. "Left arm, right leg; Right arm, left leg" And it worked, and 16 years later it is still working. If I concentrate on my arms, I can walk, even if I am frozen at the top of a flight of stairs, or any other nightmare place. And if I am mobile, but I feel myself shrinking, doubling over, as I tend to do when the medication wears off, I concentrate, pull myself up to my full height, and think "arms lead, legs will follow". Hilary Blue