Singer Neil Diamond Has Parkinson - Cure Parkinson's
Singer Neil Diamond Has Parkinson
Lucky he lived to 77 before symptoms.
I wonder how long he noticed that something was wrong before his diagnosis. But yes you are right, 77 is late.
He is luckier than those diagnosed in 60ś, who are luckier than those diagnosed in 50s, who are luckier than those diagnosed earlier.
Yes that’s right very fortunate. I’m 49 and was just diagnosed but probably have had it for the past 7-10 years
Parkinson's is a disease of old age and typically begins in the 7th decade of life. If you get to your 80's w/o developing PD your risk goes down. Earlier than 60 is young onset. Men are 1.5 times more likely to develop PD than women and the spread increases with age.
If you live in the corn belt you have some of the highest rates of PD in the world. And still our government denies that Roundup is to blame for the rising rate of neurological disorders. SMH
Have you noticed, the last few years we have even hardly any mosquitoes and of course no wasps no Bees No bumblebees no yellow jackets no black-faced Hornets however we still have many flies. And there's way way less Birds
He's my favorite! Thanks for sending.
He's my favorite too. He says he is going to keep writing songs but he didn't mention exercise. He needs to do that for sure.
I sent him a quick note on Facebook & told him about RSB, so we'll see if he responds. I sat in the 3rd row at one of his concerts one time & it was great!
He may have had it for years and only now decided to go public. bbc.com/news/entertainment-...
Well said! We hear these stories and never know the facts.
Sad news! Yes, if one is a performer before the public, Parkinson’s could well reveal it’s symptoms, while one is performing, and that could be embarrassing.
So does one of my favorites, Linda Ronstadt.
I believe I read it somewhere that she had problems singing and she had no idea why
She knows now. I saw her being interviewed about her Parkinson's. I believe she gave up singing a few years ago.
Parkinson’s can affect the vocal cords for sure. I have had that problem for a while. Sometimes my voice shakes when I speak-it never used to. My wife gets angry with me, cause she kept on telling me I was faking it all the time, until I got diagnosed with PD. Now, she doesn’t say much when I sound a little shaky.
Sorry to hear that. Many of us pd ones and their families might be helped learning his paths he took. There is so much confusion with pd. On the other hand he may want to stay out of the limelight. Stress can be hard on us with pd. Wish him all the best!
I am a speaker and when my voice started changing I couldn't figure out why. It took me over a year of searching until I found a movement disorder specialist who explained that our voice boxes are made of muscle and Parkinson's doesn't discriminate which muscles it attacks. That specialist got me into the Big and Loud program with a speech therapist who gave me exercises to keep my voice from disappearing! Big difference! I highly recommend it. Too bad more neurologists don't know about the voice issues. I went through 3 who hadn't a clue before I ran into the movement disorder doc at a Michael J Fox conference.
Can you give us a couple easy exercises that we can do? Thank you Mary
Hmmmm ... what they did most is a little hard to describe. Essentially, take as deep a breath as you can. Open your mouth wide and make a sound like "ohhhh" continually for 20 seconds, with as strong a voice as you can. (It may take a bit to make it that long.) Repeat 20 times!
Ideally, you do this at two levels. (Wish I were musically inclined as I'd make this make more sense.)
Choose a low note and a high note to do this exercise. So in total you will be doing 40 reps. Twenty at the low note and 20 at the high note. Each for 20 seconds. You can see it takes several minutes to do.
Other things they had me do is sing, read aloud, and I had several phrases I commonly used that I was to repeat each day.
The improvement in my voice was awesome. But you have to keep after it EVERY DAY! I did this therapy over 3 years ago with good success but I can tell whenever I get lazy and don't do it as much as I should, my voice starts to crackle. I do most of my practicing these days when I'm driving. Probably look ridiculous going down the road with my mouth hanging wide open but what the heck? Why not?
Best of luck!
Thanks, sounds good
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