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More good news about exercise!

This is an interesting site - to get full access there is a pretty reasonable fee (about $30 year), but every issue they have updates you can read at no charge. This one happens to be on Parkinson's

http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_ch...?storyid=18028

Ivanhoe's Medical Breakthroughs - Exercise for Parkinson's


Reported February 25, 2008
Exercise for Parkinson's


BALTIMORE, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Most medical studies look at the effects drugs have on various diseases. But doctors in Maryland want to see if good old sweat and hard work can make a difference for patients with Parkinson’s.

Sixty-one-year-old John Kendell isn’t an athlete. But for the last two months, he’s been hitting the gym regularly. At first, his Parkinson’s made it tough.


“I was stiff and my hand didn’t move along my side,” Kendall told Ivanhoe.


As time went on, working out became easier for him.


"At this slower speed we’re going now, I can stand and think about moving my hand," Kendall says.


Stroke patient Alan Sidlowski also has trouble with simple movements.


"I had very limited mobility in my hand and my leg," Sidlowski told Ivanhoe.


After working out at the gym regularly for seven months, Sidlowski has seen significant results.


"I’ve improved tremendously," Sidlowski says.


These men are part of a study aimed at finding out if exercise can do what medication often can’t for patients with neurological conditions like Parkinson's.
(Continured on Ivanhoe)