Assessment is where the therapist can understand the client’s main functional problems and goals, motor and non-motor symptoms, relevant medical history, level of understanding of role of exercise in disease, readiness for therapy, and where a targeted treatment plan can be developed.

Effective coaching is about supporting the person to be motivated and responsible for their own exercise adherence, for initial and long term behaviour change. Motivation can help build their confidence, sense of satisfaction and achievement, using intrinsic or extrinsic factors. While the coaching model promotes more autonomy, some people…

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It is unknown as to what causes the dopamine deficiency in the substantia nigra pars compacta cells in basal ganglia/midbrain of people with IPD. Diagnosis usually occurs between 55-65years of age (in which up to 60% of cells can already have perished), but symptoms can be present up to 20years prior.

There are stages of progression of the…

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There are 7 core principles – specificity, high effort (intensity), frequency, powerful, complex, meaningful, fun, all of which are designed to slow, halt or reverse the progression of IPD, through their roles in neuroplasticity (rewiring of the brain), neuroprotection (slow decline of dopamine producing cells) and neurorestoration…

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PD Warrior is a program for people with Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease, preferably newly diagnosed or in the early stages of the disease, that aims to provide neauroactive exercise (neuroplasticity, neuroprotection and neurorestoration), education to empower the individual to take control of their lifestyle, and to drive a supportive “warrior” community.