PD Movement Lab
where people with Parkinson’s craft mobile lives
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Gary Pauley is a PwP who regained his lost balance by learning olympic weightlifting. As a certified fitness coach, DBS recipient, and U.S. Army veteran, Gary also has intelligent takes on increasing general function with PD, customizing voltage of DBS stimulators, and the value of regimentation.
I recently wrote an article for Neurology Now about a positive experience I had when, despite being in an “off” state, I successfully rode my bike several long blocks to deliver a Metrocard to my teenage son who had forgot it at the house. Yet when the piece came out, I realized I wanted to write something more. I wanted to highlight some of the reasons why biking remains relatively easy for PwPs even as their disease progresses, and to relate one of those reasons to an idea already covered in PD Movement Lab…
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