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Originally Posted by Blackfeather
Something quite astonishing happens to me under a certain circumstance: when I am in a grocery store shopping and pushing a grocery cart, my PD symptons seem to abate. My posture and gait become normal, my legs seem too function at a normal pace. While my hands are on the cart I feel normal. The second I let go, my symptoms return. Grasp the cart handle and begin pushing, and I am seemingly symptom free. I know this sounds unbelievable but it is true, and I have no explaination for this phenomenon.
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Pushing a grocery cart may act as a "sensory trick" ("Geste antagoniste"), thus temporarily alleviating dystonic gait and camptocormia.
Blackfeather, the phenomenon you described has been previously reported in the literature ! According to this article, an 80-year old woman with PD "
was able to partially overcome her camptocormia by holding a bar at waist level, like when pushing a shopping trolley"!!!!
Tricks that relieve camptocormia during gait in Parkinson’s disease patients
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Cristina Semedo1, Ana Calado2, Margarida Dias3, Manuel Almeida4,
Rui Pedrosa5
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