tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post8839908394530048025..comments2023-10-27T23:36:15.302-04:00Comments on Parkinson's patients: yes we can dance: Chapter 1Bob Dawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11961380131295448176noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-24111721333836552122011-05-02T14:19:38.571-04:002011-05-02T14:19:38.571-04:00Woohoo, Bob!
Dance ON!
I’m a friend and new care...Woohoo, Bob!<br /><br />Dance ON!<br /><br />I’m a friend and new care-provider for a neighbor with Parkinson’s, and am in the process of learning all I can.<br /><br />I’ve discovered that the blogs I’ve found, like yours, are the best sources of real, useful information for someone like me. Thank you very much for your contributions to my education! :)<br /><br />May I share another that I like? http://parkinsonsand5htp.blogspot.com. The author’s name is John, and he seems like a fountain of information and inspiration. He has made lots of posts about exercise, which I thought you might find interesting. <br /><br />Yes, keep on dancing!<br /><br />CharlotteCharlottenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-26415710264346491032011-01-13T13:00:42.457-05:002011-01-13T13:00:42.457-05:00Terrific post, and blog. Music and dancing are ama...Terrific post, and blog. Music and dancing are amazing things!<br /><br />Lindy Swain, PharmD<br />www.pharmacyadvocates.comLindy Swainhttp://www.pharmacyadvocates.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-46795750848132074412010-11-22T21:41:16.522-05:002010-11-22T21:41:16.522-05:00Fantastic blog. I have worked with people with pa...Fantastic blog. I have worked with people with parkinsons now for about 10 years and I have a passion for dance. Now if I can just combine the two like you are doing! Keep up the good work and blogging. Thanks for the inspiration.HIO Golf Doctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02763531823953028593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-16514834938560813582010-06-10T17:59:14.957-04:002010-06-10T17:59:14.957-04:00Please check out the research done by Drs. Gammon ...Please check out the research done by Drs. Gammon Earhart and Madeleine Hackney at Washington Univ in St. Louis about Argentine Tango and PD. See YouTube " Fox files: Dancing the Tango, may help Parkinson's". <br />EileenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-51623048558547264062010-01-23T21:42:40.790-05:002010-01-23T21:42:40.790-05:00Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wi...Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses the effect of music therapy on Parkinson's disease patients. <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nnLTPPDRXI<br />Thanks for connecting on Facebook!!!MariaBHancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10759809603781804579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-65732664005528996012009-08-26T00:36:15.784-04:002009-08-26T00:36:15.784-04:00Oh yes, Bob, can I add your link to my site? I ha...Oh yes, Bob, can I add your link to my site? I have a whole forum of PD friends who would love it. They are at parkinsonsforum.org<br />It is a great site started in England. Very friendly.<br />TracyTracy Budgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17367490602411674576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-66281618850393526702009-08-26T00:33:36.684-04:002009-08-26T00:33:36.684-04:00Hi Bob- I'm so glad we found each other. 8 yea...Hi Bob- I'm so glad we found each other. 8 years ago my Neurologist told me I'd be disabled in 10 years and to get used to it. I fired her and I'm still going. To me, I've always known music heals. I don't know why it's such a hard concept for the N. docs. I think they would approach their patients a lot differently if they actually suffered from PD. So I talk to my new N. as little as possible. She knows I like to manage my meds and I think she really doesn't believe what she's seeing. I'm actually cutting down on meds quite often. Keep up the fight. I'm so happy that someone else is as daring as I. It was so wonderful watching you come to life, so to speak, when the music started. I was clapping and laughing. It was great, dramatic and real- wonderful. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment on my site. I'll come back when I have more time to read more of your writing.<br />Tracy<br />tracyannes.blogspot.com<br /><br />for more dancing videos go to-<br />tandtdance.com<br />I choreographed, taught, and performed the one dance on New Year's Eve this last Dec. I'm in red. I can see my stiffness but no one else knew anything was wrong with me. It took me 2 weeks to recover from that night but it was a dream come true. Thank you. Thank you.Tracy Budgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17367490602411674576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-44246775141896408612009-08-24T17:40:17.083-04:002009-08-24T17:40:17.083-04:00This is an amazing quote:
"YouTube and a sing...This is an amazing quote:<br />"YouTube and a single study at the University of Calgary should not be pit against the judgment of experts."<br /><br />May I offer the following from Nassim Taleb, in The Black Swan: "I am skeptical about confirmation, not about disconfirmation." A claim is not science if the discovery of information that runs contrary to the claim is not considered sufficient to falsify it. Newton withheld publication of his theory of gravity because of a deviation in the equations of the motion of the moon -- even though it turned out that the distance to the moon had been miscalculated.<br /><br />One YouTube clip, one single experience is enough to falsify a categorical statement by any number of experts; many clips and published research are enough to justify questioning the "expert" label.<br /><br />At the <a href="http://www.parkinson.org/" rel="nofollow">National Parkinson Foundation</a>, we are supporting dance programs for Parkinson's disease, and I enjoy reading your blog.Peter Schmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17965974362272161821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-28436525492309062062009-05-17T08:36:00.000-04:002009-05-17T08:36:00.000-04:00Great site, glad I found it. As a fellow "Parkie" ...Great site, glad I found it. As a fellow "Parkie" I have one request... Please inform Dr. Daniel J. Levitin that Parkinson's Disease is a neurological disorder, not a "mental illness."<br /><br />Keep up the great work. If you don't mind I would like to add this site to my blog roll.Joehttp://thepdwarrior.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-17906440491995855632008-10-26T12:02:00.000-04:002008-10-26T12:02:00.000-04:00LabJaz, I am very honored that you have paid atten...LabJaz, I am very honored that you have paid attention to this site. And you are not late: PD is a slow-motion disease. And now I have lost your e-mail address and url. Will find them though. I know what you mean about MLK, Nixon and how long that list gets for people who grew up in the U.S.of A. But the thing about Darcey Jerrom and most of the founders of DustMyBroom.com and the Friday Night Blues and Beer is that they grew up on an Indian Reservation in the isolated north - and on the Rez, all houses belong to the government and everything is run by government - so this group is rather unique in that they became conservative Blues Indians and Metis. Actually a call to their own people to get off welfare and re-gain their independence. Plus, there are more Blues musicians on Canadian Indian Rezervations than anywhere else in the world - their hit song now is called "Plantation or Reservation", and all of this is what "conservative" USED to mean. The President who freed the slaves was a Republican. On DustMyBroom they understand conservative as freedom and pride and self-reliance, and liberal is the government's endless programs to "help" the Indians, controlled them and keeping them in racial ghettos. Yet on DustMyBroom, few of the controversies are about "Indian Affairs" - instead, it includes native people who comment on national affairs and world affairs, and often the readers have no idea that the comments are written in impoverished Indian Reservations, with not a single complaint about how they have been treated; rather, they offer to contribute to the whole country, not just asking for more for themselves. To add to all of this, it is these Metis and Indians who have been bombarding me and other Parkinson's people with the Blues, on the advice of John Lee Hooker. You can't make this stuff up.Bob Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11961380131295448176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-3458376698865874982008-10-26T10:27:00.000-04:002008-10-26T10:27:00.000-04:00Hey Bob, Sorry it took so long to get back to yo...Hey Bob,<BR/> Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but I am a lousy comment moderator. I will link your site and use a post to announce your addition to the line up. A few of the Docs and nurses from CCM-L, Nephrol, EMED, Patho-L,<BR/>and trauma stop by from time to time, and your blog may que their interest more than my post of that article of the study.<BR/> Also I must say that I love the guy's blues show at Dust My Broom, but I am afraid I am one of those liberals, I gather he is not too fond of by reading his politics;) All I can say is if you grew up here in the US , and as a kid read about rednecks killing MLK, and saw Tricky Dicky Nixon try and subvert the free election process... and still did not become a liberal... you probably weren't paying attention;)<BR/> Hope all is well for you and yours, and thanks again for allowing me to link your blog to my site.<BR/><BR/>LabJaz... " The tardy blogger of Music and Medicine"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-55790053498140866742008-01-11T16:24:00.000-05:002008-01-11T16:24:00.000-05:00Hi Bob, I came by at a rushed time and quickly spo...Hi Bob,<BR/><BR/> I came by at a rushed time and quickly spotted and read 'Tribute to Ursula Schulz'. Very touching,thank you for sharing. I will visit again when I have more time to appreciate everything.<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/> LarryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6549593086443939370.post-36565604851472644382008-01-11T14:35:00.000-05:002008-01-11T14:35:00.000-05:00Go Bob !Cheers .... OMMAGGo Bob !<BR/>Cheers .... OMMAGOMMAGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05475151103850378778noreply@blogger.com