Cycling may help symptoms of Parkinson's disease

[OakLeaf]

Study ongoing (http://www.ohio.com/news/48047477.html) at Cleveland Clinic & Kent State.

[malkin]

That's cool.

My MIL has Parkinson's. She wasn't exactly brimming with joy when DH refurbed a bike for her husband. I'm not sure the family really paid much attention to her mood that day.

A couple months later, for her birthday, I railroaded my husband into getting her a trike. When we gave it to her, she was excited, and got all teary, and said she had given up forever the feeling of the wind in her hair and the freedom of riding a bike, and she got those things back.

She rides that trike all over their little town. We've offered to upgrade it, but she says it's perfect. I don't know what effect it's had on her Parkinson's symptoms, but it's been good for her fitness, and great for her mood. (And it hasn't hurt her opinion of this daughter-in-law either!)

[msincredible]

Good to know. My grandma had Parkinson's disease, she used to wear a bike helmet and go for a jog around the park (before she got too sick).