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This will interest all who followed Nan Cyclist earlier thread on cycling.

http://www.parkinsonresearchfoundati...c-a70dd919cce1

The Exercycle Company makes a motorized exercise bicycle called the Theracycle. The NIH department National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke gave the company the Phase 1 award under a grant named “Forced Exercise: A New Therapy for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (PD).” The program awarded the grant will seek to modify the Theracycle to replace a tandem bicycle that was used in a forced exercise study at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

In that study, Cleveland Clinic researcher Dr. Jay Alberts showed that test patients undergoing a forced exercise regimen using a tandem bike showed up to a 35 percent improvement in symptoms of Parkinson’s disease compared with a control group that used a regular stationary exercise bike. The stationary bike users showed no noticeable improvement, according to a release from The Exercycle Company. The modified Theracycles to be used in the new study will be enhanced to allow for better data gathering by the researchers.