Effective coaching motivates participants in a particular therapy modality by optimising people’s engagement, facilitating self efficacy and driving behaviour change. The success of this incudes education, feedback, gaining the person’s buy-in, adherence monitoring, exploring what’s important to the person when goal setting and primarily,…

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Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive condition that is caused by a gradual loss of cells in the substantia nigra, located in the basal ganglia/midbrain. This leads to the neurons that produce dopamine to die. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays an important role in regulating movement and motor skills. With the loss of…

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PD Warrior is a group exercise program for people with stage 1-3 idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease, that provides neauroactive exercise strategies, using high velocity, large amplitude movement to maintain function, install habitual physical activity into daily life and build community networks and peer support.