Daily Exercise for Parkinson's Patients

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This instructor-led physical fitness video offers a daily regimen of strengthening, range-of-motion, balance, and breathing exercises for people with Parkinson's disease. Gentle seated calisthenics and stretches include neck rotations and head sweeps, shoulder rolls, trunk stretches, rowing and swimming motions, arm and wrist circles, finger stretches, marching, hip rotations, hamstring stretches, ankle flexes and rotations, and lower back stretches. Gentle seated Thera-Band muscle-toning exercises include shoulder blade pinches, shoulder joint flexes, triceps curls, rowing motions, marching, thigh flexes, and ankle flexes. And gentle standing exercises include sit-to-stands, hip extensions, rear-kicks, squats, and calf stretches. The program ends with deep breathing.