Ways to Improve Symptoms - Motor and Nonmotor

Physical Therapy for Parkinson's Disease

Physical therapy and exercise are crucial aspects of Parkinson’s disease (PD) treatment and APDA has many ways to help you get up and moving.

Many people are curious about why exercise is so important for someone with PD and what type of exercise is best for someone with PD. Others have questions about physical therapy. For example, there are times when doing exercise or physical therapy doesn’t seem to be helping and is in fact causing fatigue or pain. What should someone do then?

Click here to read the full article to get answers to these questions and learn more about rehabilitation after a medical challenge, PT related pain, fatigue, and breathlessness, and more.

by Katie Willard Virant, MSW, JD, LCSW, is a psychotherapist practicing in St. Louis, as published by Psychology Today.

Working with our assumptions can help us navigate the ebbs and flows of illness.

• Mindset plays an important role in mental health outcomes for people living with chronic illness.
• Researchers have identified three mindset types in illness: catastrophe, management, and opportunity.
• We fluctuate among these mindsets and can build skills to work with them.

Click here to read the full article and learn more about illness mindset.

American Parkinson Disease Association | Iowa Chapter

Phone: (515) 207-6296 Email: apdaiowa@apdaparkinson.org

2951 86th Street | Urbandale, Iowa 50322