Tom Reiss wrote in part:
The following are examples of activities which accelerate or
>augment optical flow and these are activities that will suppress
>dyskinesia. Skiing, roller skating, riding a motor cycle or bicycle (but
>not in a car), walking on a moving sidewalk, walking on stilts, looking
>through a telephoto lens which is zooming in, walking towards a wall that
>is illuminated by a strobe light, running, regularly spaced cues on the
>floor, walking behind a rolling ball at the same speed as the ball and
>watching it roll, elevated (platforms) on the shoes and countless others.
>Those activities which can be performed while ambulating will overcome
>akinesia as well.
Sounds great, Tom--but I hate to tell you, there's NOT ONE of those
activities Peter could undertake!
Fortunately (knock on wood) he doesn't have dys--yet.
Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 81/70/55
Oxford, Ohio
http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm
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