Personalized Parkinson's

This groundbreaking book provides vital lifestyle strategies for each unique individual diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
For more than thirty years Dr. Ben Weinstock, a noted researcher and Doctor of Physical Therapy, has been unraveling not only the mysteries of Parkinson's Disease, but also how to individualize care.

Having Personalized Parkinson's: Maximize Your Health by Individualizing Your Care is like having an experienced clinician by your side, 24 hours by 7 days a week.

Personalized Parkinson's: Maximize Your Health by Individualizing Your Care will make the person with Parkinson's Disease the key player in the patient-doctor dialogue. Being an informed patient is critical to search out what is "best" for each person with the condition and to avoid potentially harmful interventions.

Fully indexed and backed by more than 900 scientific references, Personalized Parkinson's: Maximize Your Health by Individualizing Your Care is the first work of its kind to untangle the overwhelming complexities of Parkinson's Disease and to transform them into easily understandable laymen's terms.

Each chapter of this extraordinary book offers readers not only explanations of the variety of problems that can occur, but insightful "Action Plans" that can be used as to enhance communication between people with Parkinson's, caregivers, and members of the healthcare team.

Emphasis is placed on the "non-motor" aspects of the disease, which are often misdiagnosed, overlooked, and poorly understood. Dr. Weinstock offers a multitude of insights into identifying one's unique array of signs and symptoms. The goal is the tailoring of lifestyle choices for the individual in order to maximize health with Parkinson's Disease.

Personalized Parkinson's: Maximize Your Health by Individualizing Your Care will help you discover:
The critical need for determining your level of exercise tolerance, in order to avoid the largely unrecognized dang