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Exercise May Aid Parkinson's Disease - Yahoo! News
MORE: "Heather MacTavish leaped around the circle of drums, singing and waving her arms to urge the drummers louder, faster.
Only a slight tremor in one hand revealed her Parkinson's disease. That and the name-tags on her drummers a mix of Parkinson's patients and brain researchers, watching MacTavish kick up her orange-socked heels in the name of science.
Growing evidence suggests that exercise whether it's sweating on a treadmill or on a dance floor can help Parkinson's patients move better and may even slow the inevitable march of this degenerative brain disease.
'Even if we can't reverse things, I think we still hope that we can slow down or even stop the progression,' says Michael Zigmond, a neurobiologist at the University of Pittsburgh who, with colleagues in Texas, has come up with some of the most tantalizing research."
Only a slight tremor in one hand revealed her Parkinson's disease. That and the name-tags on her drummers a mix of Parkinson's patients and brain researchers, watching MacTavish kick up her orange-socked heels in the name of science.
Growing evidence suggests that exercise whether it's sweating on a treadmill or on a dance floor can help Parkinson's patients move better and may even slow the inevitable march of this degenerative brain disease.
'Even if we can't reverse things, I think we still hope that we can slow down or even stop the progression,' says Michael Zigmond, a neurobiologist at the University of Pittsburgh who, with colleagues in Texas, has come up with some of the most tantalizing research."