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Multidisciplinary Care for Parkinson’s Disease
by Norika Malhado-Chang, MD, Co-director of Parkinson’s Disease Multidisciplinary Clinic and Director of Medical Student Education in...
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ARTICLES
Which Mobility Aid is Right for Me?
By Romy Villaluz, Physical Therapy Assistant, UC Davis Laura Sifuentes, Physical Therapist, Board Certified Neurologic Specialist, UC...
Dial Down Your Anxiety!
By Dr. Eric Egli, PhD Persons with Parkinson’s understandably worry about their future. Uncertainty and fear add to the physical concerns...
Sharing our Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease
by Ralph F Sett, MD, Member, PANC Board of Directors How do we Persons with Parkinson’s begin to discuss our diagnosis with others? The...
Making Sense of Stem Cell Therapy for PD
Suketu M. Khandhar, MD Medical Director, KPNC Comprehensive Mvt Disorders Program We have long known by the time an individual is...
Emergency Room Preparedness for People with Parkinson's
Norika Malhado-Chang, MD and Kristina Hart, DO UC Davis Health, Department of Neurology While it is always the goal to keep people with...
Nutrition and Parkinson’s
Norika Malhado-Chang, MD Associate Professor of Neurology, UC Davis Erin Lavin, RD, CNSC Senior Neuroscience Dietitian, UC Davis We all...
Bladder Problems: Is it Me or the PD?
by Norika Malhado-Chang, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, UC Davis School of Medicine Nobody likes to talk about it, but urinary...
When Your Feet Feel Stuck to the Floor
by Christine Shade, PT, DPT, NCS and Sarah Pinasco, PT, DPT, Kaiser Permanente Have you ever felt like your feet were stuck to the floor...
Dystonia
Suketu M. Khandhar, MD, Medical Director, KPNC Comprehensive Mvt Disorders Program We all know that the cardinal motor symptoms of PD are...
Mike’s New Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease: A Clinician’s Perspective
Suketu M. Khandhar, M.D. Medical Director, Movement Disorders Program, Kaiser Permanente For the past two years, “Mike”, a construction...
Gratitude in the Time of COVID-19
edited by Carolyn Loveridge In this time of COVID-19 an article about gratitude seems laughable. Instead, as we are each sheltering at...
Conquering Apathy
Suketu M. Khandhar, MD, Medical Director, KPNC Comprehensive Mvt Disorders Program Dr. Beverly Chang, Geriatric Psychiatry, Private...
Posture Exercises: How to Stay Flexible while Staying Home
Jennifer Park, PT, DPT, MS Faculty,Department of Kinesiology California State University, Sacramento Exercise is medicine for People with...
ParkinsonWISE – Truly a WIN – WIN!
By Marianne Oliphant, Former Treasurer, Parkinson Association of Northern California “Know anything about Parkinson’s” asked Ron of...
A BLADDER WORKOUT? Sure!
Rachel S. Worman, DPT Leaking urine is common in people who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. You are not alone and pelvic...
The Parkinson’s Thief
by Dr. Beverly Chang, Geriatric Psychiatry Direct At times it seems that Parkinson’s is like a thief, robbing individuals of their...
Sleep and Parkinson’s Disease
by Erica Byrd, MD and Nicklesh Thakur, DOSutter Medical Group Neurology, Movement Disorders Sleep complaints are common in people with...
PD Related Psychosis
by Suketu M Khandhar, MD & Michel Medina, MD Kaiser Permanente Sacramento “Creativity and Psychosis often go hand in hand.” This line can...
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