Cycling and Parkinson's Disease

gethmetal
gethmetal Posts: 208
edited August 2010 in The bottom bracket
Fascinating stuff. Apologies if it's already been posted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/healt ... .html?_r=3

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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    "Yet the moment the man got off the bike, his symptoms returned. He froze immediately, unable to take a step."

    Aye aye, thats a DSS fraudster if ever there was one.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    There was a girl who claimed she couldn't walk normally, and when she tried she did this crazy movement - yet if she walked backwards or ran she was fine. Turned out she was faking it :P
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  • fatfreddy
    fatfreddy Posts: 332
    if you scroll down - it says the article was published on April 1st.
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    I know two fellow cyclist who both suffer with this.Both this riding without problems.Both feel better whilst out on a bike.
    bagpuss
  • Mike Healey
    Mike Healey Posts: 1,023
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    "Yet the moment the man got off the bike, his symptoms returned. He froze immediately, unable to take a step."

    Aye aye, thats a DSS fraudster if ever there was one.

    "After seeing that man, Dr. Bloem asked 20 other severely affected patients about riding a bike. It turned out that all could do it, though it is not clear why."

    That Dr. Bloem, too easily fooled. :wink:
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  • Mike Healey
    Mike Healey Posts: 1,023
    fatfreddy wrote:
    if you scroll down - it says the article was published on April 1st.

    If you look at the top of the article, says it was published 31 March
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    I'm sorry but I struggle to find any amusement in Parkinsons disease, having watched it kill my father-in-law over a period of 15 or so years. A man who fought throughout ww2 and was basically deserted by a society which really owed him a living.

    Land fit for heroes, MY @RSE. :evil:
    Tail end Charlie

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  • nadir
    nadir Posts: 115
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    "Yet the moment the man got off the bike, his symptoms returned. He froze immediately, unable to take a step."

    Aye aye, thats a DSS fraudster if ever there was one.


    which shows how little you know about parkinsons, one of the major problems it presents to sufferers is in the initiation of movement, but that once they "launch" themselves into motion such as when cycling, they can carry on fairly well with that movement. the problem being that they freeze again when they STOP

    people really shouldnt pass judgements upon things about which they know sfa

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