Receiving Parkinson’s diagnosis is a very emotional moment for most patients. Despite of the many challenges this disease carries, there are ways to manage it and live a productive life. Please come in for a free consult if you are Parkinson’s patient and you might be surprised by the options available for you to restore and maintain your mobility.

LSVT BIG treatment is administered by therapists who specialized it, usually in 16 sessions over a single month. This is 4 individual 60 minute sessions per week. The protocol was developed specifically to address the unique movement impairments for people with Parkinson disease. The protocol is both intensive and complex, with many repetitions of core movements that are used in daily living. This type of practice is necessary to optimize learning and carryover of your better movement into everyday life. You will be very pleasantly surprised by the results.

It is very important to start exercising as soon as possible. Physicians rarely refer their patients to health and fitness programs at diagnosis. The reason for this is because medications are very effective early on at alleviating most of the symptoms, and patients experience little change in function. However, according to a recent survey, it is at the time of diagnosis that patients often begin to consider lifestyle changes and seek education about conventional and complementary/alternative treatment options. Thus, referrals to exercise, wellness programs and physical/occupational therapy would be best initiated at diagnosis, when it may have the most impact on quality of life.