Parkinson’s disease: a progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs motor skills, speech, loss of automatic movements such as blinking, and may lead to dementia in the later stages. The central nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.

I get asked these questions everyday from my patients. “So what are the core muscles and why is this so important?” The core muscles are stabilizers that aid with movement. Core exercises increase balance, stability, improve upright posture, and act as a shock absorbent. Without

Aquatic therapy can reduce stress on the joints such as arthritic joints. A simple workout could be walking 10 minutes forwards and backwards in the shallow end (about chest high) and side to side for 10 minutes. (more…)