This caught my eye:
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Addressing a peculiarity of the disease, Guten often chooses activities that stress sideways movement.
"When I move sideways, there's very little tremor," he said, jerkily picking up a hiking pole and swinging it like a golf club, his stroke clean and smooth as a pro's.
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I've been using the sideways notion for a few weeks now. Someone here mentioned moving side to side to break a freeze. It helps me overcome start hesitation.
I expanded the use to walking and my gait is better. Instead of focusing on walking foward, I think of my walking as walking side to side, sideways. Sometimes I sway a bit. But just imagining moving sideways helps my gait a great deal.
I don't have resting tremor but my gait disorder and bradykinesia are helped by 'moving sideways' instead of foward, even thought the the motion is a foward motion. When my brain
thinks sideways, I just move better, and I don't know why, but it works.
