Strong yet Weak

[Fredzu]

After countless miles and lifting weights, my legs are the strongest part of my body.

I can't understand why the muscles in the legs, particularly the thighs feel weak?

Is PD doing his thing?

FJohn1

[JohnPepper]

Hi fjohn. When you do strenuous prolonged exercise your muscles need a day to recover, otherwise they eat themselves up, in order to find the energy they need in order to do the work you are demending of them. So they get smaller and weeker.

[Niludi in reply to JohnPepper]

Hi John. I have the same problem. I can't do anything even walking is difficult.it's like they just give in fandango this is from waist down.so frustrating,

[soup]

How do they feel weak? Do they look underdeveloped and weak or are they just not capable of doing what you want of them?

If your exercise has been walking and weight lifting the muscles used in those actions will have been strengthened, along with the neural pathways that govern those moves.

However, the muscles not needed in the movements will not have developed. Also, humans are excellent at adapting to situations and you may find that your body will have used muscle groups that are not usual for the exercise since the usual ones are hared to stimulate and control with Parkinson's.

A Neurophysiotherapist recently pinpointed the small muscle groups that my husband was underusing when walking and balancing and designed and exercise programme to specifically work on those.

[BillDavid]

Fjohn1, , great awareness, will help you in future. Problem is that Patients are not informed about what is going on. Recommend a book by Dr Dwight McGoon MD, Parkensson's Management. Ia a Surgeon at MAYO who has the disease. Brieftly, the issue is posture., which focuses its the movement. Two muscles are dynamically opposed, extensor to straighten join, and reflexor to pull down to right angle appearance. Note, thet both pull. The PD effect is in the straitum which fails to tense the extensors. They are weak. Meanwhile, the reflexors tense up, pull tight, because they re no lomger balanced. They need to be stretched, w3hich extensors need to be strengthen. There are sets of exercisesdesigned to accompliish both. Realizing that the reflexor muscles will be pain full, I am ssure that you an notice this in tight nd leg mucles.

BillDavid

[Catlou in reply to BillDavid]

Do you have a site for these exercises

[BillDavid in reply to Catlou]

Try a DVD The Magic of Movement Availbe through tyhe Wisc onsin Chapter APDA.'''DVD by Jane Bursch'

Bi;;David

[BillDavid in reply to Catlou]

Looked up the contact. Magic of Movement Manual\DVD.

Contact Jordan M ooney, 608-345-7938. Donation greatly appreciated.

[Niludi]

Thank you for that.I am going to take a look at this.!

[Fredzu]

After a lifetime of exercising, I find myself weak. I credit PD for unveiling this truth.

I will change.

FJohn1

[Beckey]

I get the same thing. Very frustrating!

[ecurb]

Yes... strength is not so much a question of muscle as it is of nervous influx and Parkinson's hampers that influx, hence the feeling of weakness.

[Fredzu]

Thank you for your astute reflection. Who should I be?

FJohn1