Parkinson's: Ways to Cope with Walking, Balancing, and Falling

• Alternative medicine and lifestyle changes. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) often gives relief that other treatments don’t provide. Use a nutritional diet that increases your medication’s effectiveness, exercise including fitness training, resistance exercises, and flexibility exercises. Yoga is among the leading alternative therapies in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Try it out.
• Massage stimulates muscles and is a beautiful way to manage pain and stress.
• The story of Michael J. Fox’s brave fight against Parkinson’s is one sufferers of this disease can relate. Diagnosed at the unthinkable age of 30, Fox has continued to act well after his diagnosis. His foundation fights to fund stem cell research and provide opportunities for research to find an end to Parkinson's. Michael J. Fox at times struggles just to get up, and reports state that he uncontrollably shakes while doing everyday activities. He has a positive attitude and says, “I was in a unique place with the opportunity to help others.”