Chris Lacey allegedly recovered from PD through mindfulness and wood carving

[Bolt_Upright]

Just keeping alive a story jeeves19 has shared with us:

Chris Lacey story. He allegedly recovered from PD through mindfulness and wood carving: themercury.com.au/news/tasm... 

Health Unlocked has a post from somebody who knows Chris and has some video clips 2 clips of Chris walking from his wood shed, both without medication, about 18 months apart: healthunlocked.com/cure-par... 

There is a lady in a FB PD group who has had similar success, but creating jewelry instead of carving wood.

Here is a video that also purports the benefits of exercising fine motor skills: Hands and Fingers in Parkinson's Disease youtu.be/V7gSvUbUdkE(Not working as expected?)

Seems worth keeping in mind.

[MBAnderson]

Whatever (works)

[jeffmayer in reply to MBAnderson]

Agreed

[JohnPepper]

Several years ago, my wife and I travelled all over the English-speaking world and a couple of non-English speaking countries. My quest was to reach PD patients how to overcome their movement problems. Everywhere I went I showed people how to walk normally and there was not one person with walking difficulties, including one man in a wheelchair.

It was an incredible experience!

I met Chris and was astounded with the quality of the chess sets he had made. He uses an incredible imagination, and every set is different to the others.

Well-done Chris!!!!

[Astra7]

I’ve taken up knitting. Have no idea if it’s helping, but I now have a lot of cheerful beanies!!

[gomelgo in reply to Astra7]

I have gone back to knitting, but am a total beginner. It kinda hurts, so I only do a little at a time. But it makes perfect sense this would help.

[Stillstandingstill]

I've taken up knitting too (very slowly and badly). My PD is still very one-sided and it's the non dominant arm so it's always a challenge to find activities where my left hand has to play an active role. I'm up to 1.5 jumpers so far 😄 it also stops me from doom-scrolling on my phone in the evening.