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Sit and Be Fit – Facial Exercises – Mary Wilson, RN – Neuro Rehab for Stroke Parkinson’s

Gut bugs are implicated in heart attacks and stroke By Sharon Begley | Reuters

Ask your Doctor if Exercise is right for you.

Lifestyle changes that may be helpful, some of these are in the Parkinson’s section:

Good nutrition: try to buy organic food, limit your red meat and products that have hormones
Eat foods high in antioxidants: blueberries, nuts, green tea, strawberries
Enhance your immune function
Avoid pesticides
Avoid taking products that contain aluminum: some anti-acid medicine and some tomato sauce products contain aluminum. Also avoid deodorant with aluminum.
Start with small changes in your diet. Try it for a couple of weeks and see how you feel. Make a menu of plant based diet. Go organic if possible, avoid red meat and avoid Gluten.
Avoid stress; stress can lead to shrinkage of the memory centers of the brain.
Ask your Doctor if exercise is right for you.

Balance and Strength - Easy to follow exercise

Exercise

Exercise will help you with stress, increase flexibility, strength, calmer lifestyle, energizes your life and body conditioning.
Laugh – not only helps you with stress, but it is a fact that after you laugh, your stress hormone cortisol lowers. Also, it changes your body chemistry and lowers the risk of heart attack.
Exercise several times per day with rest periods in between. Combine exercise with meditation: Yoga or T’ai Chi.
Go dancing every week.
Flexibility – Stretch.
Balance – Teach your brain you are not going to fall by doing simple exercises.
Open the Joints.
Exercise your Lungs.

QiGong

Play Music: Music stimulates your mind and relaxes your body. Vibration is important in our lives.
Sing: vocal exercises improve speech and helps swallowing.

Keep Memory Skills

Pay attention.
Make a diary, write a to-do list, have a schedule.
Repeat, visualize, associate.
Travel – Do you know that using a map helps you?
Visit museums and art galleries. Pay attention to the little details in the paintings. Look at the different colors. Make up a story of what the artist tried to represent.
Learn to do one thing at a time; don’t multitask.
Learn to use the computer; write your biography.
Do something creative: paint, draw, build, find a new hobby.
Meditate: start slow if you’ve never done it. Increment your time or do it twice a day. By learning to meditate you will learn to regulate the breath.

Physical therapy, speech therapy (if necessary), and occupational therapy.

Learn a new skill; new language, new word, read, do crossword puzzles, take a class, learn to play an instrument.

Socialize

Place railings in commonly used areas of the house (Parkinson’s – Alzheimer’s).

Special eating utensils (Parkinson’s – Alzheimer’s).

Exercise and Parkinson’s– A Neuroscientist discovers a mysterious connection between our hands and legs.

Exercise your left brain – These Brain stimulation techniques will assist in strengthening the weak side of the brain and serve to lessen the effects of tremors and weakness due to Parkinson’s disease, if done with diligence and consistency.

Do the QiGong exercise each day that you feel comfortable. If need be these exercises can be done sitting down.

QiGong exercise for the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease:

A randomized, controlled pilot study.Schmitz-Hübsch T¹, Pyfer D, Kielwein K, Fimmers R, Klockgether T, Wüllner U.

Ask your Doctor if Exercise is right for you. Ask him about Ibuprofen (Alzheimer’s) and Vitamin D. Lifestyle changes that may be helpful:
Good nutrition:

Try to buy organic food, limit your red meat and products that have hormones
Eat foods high in antioxidants: blueberries, nuts, green tea, strawberries
Enhance your immune function
Avoid pesticides
Aluminum – Avoid taking products that contain aluminum: some anti-acid medicine and some tomato sauce products contain aluminum. Also avoid deodorant with aluminum.
Start with small changes in your diet. Try it for a couple of weeks and see how you feel.
Make a menu of plant based diet.
Go organic if possible, avoid red meat and
Avoid stress; stress can lead to shrinkage of the memory centers of the brain

Exercise

Exercise will help you with stress, increase flexibility, strength, calmer lifestyle, energizes your life and body conditioning
Laugh – not only helps you with stress, but it is a fact that after you laugh, your stress hormone cortisol lowers. Also, it changes your body chemistry and lowers the risk of heart attack
Exercise several times per day with rest periods in between. Combine exercise with meditation: Yoga or T’ai Chi
Go dancing every week
Flexibility – Stretch
Balance – Teach your brain you are not going to fall by doing simple exercises
Open the Joints
Exercise your Lungs

QiGong

Play Music: Music stimulates your mind and relaxes your body. Vibration is important in our lives.
Sing: vocal exercises improve speech and helps swallowing

Keep Memory Skills

Pay attention
Make a diary, write a to-do list, have a schedule
Repeat, visualize, associate
Travel – Do you know that using a map helps you?
Visit museums and art galleries. Pay attention to the little details in the paintings. Look at the different colors. Make up a story of what the artist tried to represent
Learn to do one thing at a time; don’t multitask
Learn to use the computer; write your biography
Meditate: start slow if you’ve never done it. Increment your time or do it twice a day. By learning to meditate you will learn to regulate the breath.
Physical therapy, speech therapy (if necessary), and occupational therapy
Learn a new skill; new language, new word, read, do crossword puzzles, take a class, learn to play an instrument
Do something creative: paint, draw, build, find a new hobby
Place railings in commonly used areas of the house (Parkinson’s – Alzheimer’s)
Special eating utensils (Parkinson’s – Alzheimer’s)
Socialize
Read the “Importance of Vibration” under the QiGong section. Try to learn piano, use a keyboard, any musical instrument will do.Use music everyday at all time.

Parkinson’s

Cleveland Clinic
Bicycle
MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF QIGONG – Keneth M. Sancier – PhD – Therapeutic Balancing of the Meridians and Functions of the Body, Examples of Medical application, combinations of Qigong and drugs versus drug therapy alone and studies.
Qigong exercise for the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease: a randomized, controlled pilot study. Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Germany.