Amazing Video of a Parkinson's patient transformed with a football

[pdpatient]

Unbelievable! Yet, I have read about others achieving similar transformation in certain situations.

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[park_bear]

Yes Parkinson's screws up the automated stuff, like walking. Movements that require conscious attention seem to be less affected.

[MarionP in reply to park_bear]

This simple comment has a lot of importance and applicability that belies it's brevity. I'd recommend people to read it over and over and think about it a few times.

For example, you gradually become more and more frozen, or find it harder and harder to break out from stopped. But if you think "I think I want to put my foot not just anywhere forward without thinking much about it, but THERE, three inches to the right in a circle or spot I just mentally drew, a cue spot, then somehow that gets you unstuck and you're off.

[WinnieThePoo]

I can think of a couple of other examples. The first is Michael j Fox playing ice hockey.

And the 2nd, a young Indian lady trying to help a favourite uncle get around. Although he needed a frame to walk and took tiny shuffling steps, he had no problems on stairs so she made mats with a 3d stair effect on them and he could walk along those.

You see it in that video. Before he gets to the ball he has no problems with the step

[WinnieThePoo]

Not sure why this shows "video unavailable" when I tried the link - because its there on YOutube. Search for "Parkinsons stair illusion"

youtu.be/tt2rDJRpdTo(Not working as expected?)

[Grumpy77]

Hmm.... walking in short steps... hmmm... I'm not really so sure. Just like the video in the other thread, hmm.... curious but... I'm not really so sure

[pdpatient in reply to Grumpy77]

Hi Grumpy. I am not sure if I understand your concern. Please phrase your question clearly. Do you have doubts about the video?

I don't walk in short steps and maybe you don't, but maybe some do. I don't know anyone who does, but I don't think it is fake.

[WinnieThePoo in reply to Grumpy77]

see my reply to pdpatient (in error) below

[WinnieThePoo]

Not sure whether your problem is walking like that (festination) or suddenly walking normally. My Dad freezes and restarts with a shuffle like that. He is a bit frail and rigid now, but descended steps at a normal pace. My mate Jim (who whoops me at pool) also increasingly has a festination problem as his meds struggle to cope.

[pdpatient in reply to WinnieThePoo]

Winnie, are you addressing me? I don't have this problem. I replied to Grumpy.

[WinnieThePoo in reply to pdpatient]

I meant to reply to Grumpy. I am clearly not at my best.

[pdpatient in reply to WinnieThePoo]

Winnie, it happens to the best of us🥺

[Bvanves]

Good morning, everyone.

I think tomorrow he'll be running on his hands...

Thanks for the joke

[pdpatient in reply to Bvanves]

Bvanves:. What joke?