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19/12/2025

🎄 Self-Care Over Christmas: A Guide for People Living With Parkinson’s
The festive season can be joyful — but it can also be tiring. This year, give yourself permission to slow down and focus on what supports your wellbeing.
✨ Create space for rest: Plan quiet breaks and let loved ones know you may need time to reset.
☀️ Stay cool and hydrated: Choose cooler activities, use shade or air-con, and drink plenty of water.
🕊️ Pace yourself: Spread out tasks and skip the non-essentials.
🥗 Eat well and keep moving: Opt for simple meals, eat mindfully, and fit in light movement where you can.
💊 Manage medication: Stay consistent, ensure you have enough, and check storage needs in the heat.
🔄 Stay flexible: Symptoms can shift — backup plans (and saying “no”) can help prevent burnout.
Read the full guide here 👉 https://www.parkinsonswa.org.au/self-care-over-christmas-a-guide-for-people-living-with-parkinsons

08/12/2025

I am on annual leave from 5th December to 21st December.

02/12/2025

“Off” time is when Parkinson’s symptoms — motor and/or non-motor — return or worsen between medication doses. Not everyone experiences “off” time, but it is more common the longer you live with Parkinson’s, the longer you take Parkinson’s medications and the higher the dose of medi...

02/12/2025

Im pretty excited to receive ‘Smovey’ delivery today. Looking forward to exploring how the sensory feedback and the actual moving weight can add balue to exercising. Especially arm swing with walking.

01/12/2025

People with multiple sclerosis (MS) often experience lower bone density and earlier onset of Osteoporosis, increasing the risk of falls and/or fractures. The STRONG-MS study is evaluating a High-Intensity Resistance and Impact Training (HiRIT) program, to see whether it can improve bone health, muscle strength, mobility, and quality of life in people with MS. Over the course of 12-months, free exercise sessions will be attended twice-weekly, each lasting 30-minutes.

Click here for eligibility criteria and more information: https://www.perroninstitute.org/clinics/clinical-trials/strong-ms-study/

27/11/2025

You may want to understand your sleeping difficulty better. You can register for this Sleep Study looking at an online survey on sleep "Sleep Spotlight". It takes about 10 minutes to complete and then gives you a report that you can use to discuss with a health professional.

The Sleep Spotlight tool checks for common sleep disorders and will provide you with a personalised report with recommendations regarding your sleep health.

25/11/2025

Making sure you have time and space for recovery is key to getting the most out of exercise, training, rehab and life.

Too often, we focus only on the stress the lifts, the steps, the miles thinking that effort alone builds strength. But without recovery, all we do is accumulate fatigue. Muscles tighten. Joints ache. Motivation fades. Strength stagnates.

For older adults especially, recovery isn’t optional it’s the bridge between today’s effort and tomorrow’s capability. Sleep, rest, mobility work, and intentional deloads aren’t signs of weakness.
They are the tools that allow your body to adapt, grow stronger, and stay resilient.

Every workout is a seed.
Recovery is the sunlight and water.
Together, they grow a body that can lift grandchildren, hike trails, carry groceries, and move freely decades into the future. Strength is about preserving independence, vitality, and freedom for the years ahead.

24/11/2025

Among potential non motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, hallucinations and delusions can be, understandably, some of the most challenging. By visiting the link in our comments, you can learn:

* What hallucinations and delusions are
* What causes this symptom
* How they are treated
* Guidance for care partners & family

Not everyone with Parkinson’s disease will experience this symptom, and if, when and to what degree they occur varies from person to person. If they do develop, it’s usually after many years or decades of life with Parkinson’s.

24/11/2025

It's getting to that time of year when things ramp up. If we let our battery run flat, it's hard to enjoy the things we want to do.
Remember to check in with your body and take a break and reset/recharge when your battery is down to 20%.

22/11/2025

I am a Certified LSVT BIG physiotherapist.
LSVT BIG effectively trains improved movements for any activity, whether “small motor” tasks like buttoning a shirt or “large motor” tasks like getting up from sofa or chair or maintaining balance while walking. The treatment improves walking, self-care and other tasks by helping people “recalibrate” how they perceive their movements with what others actually see. It also teaches them how and when to apply extra effort to produce bigger motions – more like the movements of everyone around them.
Here is a video introducing the warm up exercises to functional task practice.

Exercise along with LSVT BIG Expert Jenny Tuccitto, MPT through this video highlighting the LSVT BIG exercises that are a part of the LSVT BIG treatment prog...

22/11/2025

Phyical Activity is one of the best treatments for people living with Dementia. Monash University have a great booklet, "Staying Active with Dementia - A guide for people living with dementia and their families, friends and/or key supporters." explaining the why, what and how. Neurological physiotherapy can help you to get started ot to find what suits you best if it is getting tricky.
https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/4162094/522415-Staying-Active-with-Dementia-Booklet-A4.pdf

https://www.monash.edu/medicine/national-centre-for-healthy-ageing/living-labs/changing-the-focus-engaging-people-with-dementia-in-physical-activity

Lower and declining activity levels are common for people with dementia – however they also likely contribute to a decline in physical and cognitive health, increasing the risk of chronic disease and falls, reduced quality of life, and social isolation. This study is developing and evaluating a ne...

22/11/2025

If you are living with PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, physiotherapy can help you.
"Physiotherapy is extremely important to maintain physical strength as long as possible and minimise falls risk. This prolongs physical independence and improves ability for others to care for the person with PSP when they need assistance..."
The Brain Foundation has some great information about PSP:

Progressive supranuclear palsy is characterized by symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease (i.e. unsteady, stiff movements & mild dementia).