When the media frenzy focused on Hurricane Gustav and the Republican National Convention, I couldn’t figure out why my blog readers were zeroing in on a different topic – bicycling with Parkinson’s. I had 650+ hits on my blog in the past two days, primarily on one story Pedaling Past Parkinson’s that I wrote more than a year ago in June 2007.
On September 2, 2008, Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News reported a story about Jay Alberts, a researcher at the Cleveland Clinic, who is studying a new treatment for Parkinson’s Disease: “forced exertion” through tandem bicycling at 80-90 rpms. The preliminary research suggests that the rate of exercise is an important factor in decreasing the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.
Check out the report, Parkinson’s and Bicycling, at:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/33047/nbc-nightly-news-with-brian-williams-parkinsons-and-bicycling
Thank you, Brian Williams, for increasing awareness about exercising with Parkinson’s
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