Understanding Parkinson’s disease

Some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease will affect your muscles and joints, they will cause the sufferer to move more slowly and feel weakness, tightness and pain in the joints and muscles. There is however a lot that can be done to alleviate these symptoms and get you a little more mobile in the process, physical and occupational therapy are just two of these ways.

While physical therapy isn’t a cure for the disease it can help the patient to compensate for changes which the disease brings about, physical therapy entails the sufferer learning new techniques to help and improve movement by learning strategies and using equipment. Your physical therapist will be able to show you exercise routines which can be done in the home and which will help to both strengthen and loosen muscles. (more…)