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Hi Will, Before you buy this device, you might want to wait until NPF comes out with their exercise book this or next month. Also, We of the NPF, Arizona Chapter, will be putting on a workshop on exercise for PWP. There is a very good tape from the West Los Angeles YWCA and the UCLA Movement Disorder Program that Mary Yost posted on. I have found that the use of Dyna-Bands or Therabands to be the most friendly and most cost effective, less than $ 9.00 for a package of Bands, three different resistances, along with a booklet of suggested exercises. We have also looked at a pillow like device called a "Disk Sit". This emulates the top of the balance ball, but is placed on a chair. We suggest the use of a hard seat chair with arms, this allows for balancing activities without the use of a spotter. We found sources for all this, and I would be willing to share such with you. We have a number of Physical Therapist with family ties to PD that will be helping us with our program. O, yes the ADA is stimulating a lot of interest in community resources being developed to aid folks with disabilities. So if you would like more information, please contact me off list. [log in to unmask] At 06:16 PM 12/5/98 -0500, you wrote: >Yesterday via snail-mail I received a letter plugging an exercise device >designed by a Parkinson's disease patient. > >According to the letter, the price is $39.95 plus shipping and handling, >but the amount for S&H was not mentioned. It added that $1.00 of each sale >would go to APDA for RESEARCH only. > >A couple of pictures were enclosed[Xeroxed photos]. The thing appears to be >a loop of rope made to look sort of like a stirrup thanks to a piece of >what I think is heavy-duty garden hose. This is attached to a single pulley >which has another rope [or maybe bunge cord] running through the pulley >sheave. There are two more stirrups - one on each end of the second rope.. >"It is designed to help stretch, tone, and strengthen muscles. It also >allows the user the control of resistance, that is needed, by leverage >along with aerobic capabilities. It is a low cost and convenient way for >anyone to help stay fit. $39.95 plus shipping and handling." [material in >quotation marks is verbatim] > >There is a website.. www.stretch-a-ciser.com. The picture loads very >slowly. There is also an e-mail address: [log in to unmask] There >is a fax number : 309-359-3115. The pitchman is a Joe Fisher. There was no >address given in the letter, but there is an address in the website. > >This may be the best thing since the Chalres Atlas rubber belts of the >1940's, but I don't know. I am not ordering one now. > > > >Will Johnnston >A.P.D.A. DelMarVA Chapter Pres. >4049 Oakland School Road >Salisbury MD 21804 USA 410-543-0110 >