{"id":2790,"date":"2023-01-30T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregscorneroffice.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2023-01-30T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:29:38","slug":"oped-battling-parkinsons-disease-one-boxing-lesson-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregscorneroffice.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/oped-battling-parkinsons-disease-one-boxing-lesson-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling Parkinson\u2019s Disease One Boxing Lesson at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2670\" src=\"https:\/\/gregscorneroffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.05.36-PM-300x69.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregscorneroffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.05.36-PM-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/gregscorneroffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.05.36-PM.png 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen life hands you lemons, make lemonade,\u201d goes the adage.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself once again dealing with something I never saw in my future.<\/p>\n<p>Coming out of my lengthy hospital stay battling Covid-19, I noticed an involuntary movement in my right thumb and foot. I marked it up to a nervous twitch from all the emotional stress and anticipated it would subside. It didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>My moment of truth came one morning at my gym. Someone who I didn\u2019t know at the time said, \u201cCan I ask you a personal question?\u201d Giving the okay, he asked, \u201cDo you have Parkinson\u2019s?\u201d \u201cWhy?\u201d, I asked. His response floored me. \u201cYou have the same symptoms I had when I got Parkinson\u2019s.\u201d He told me my movements, including the tremors, were affecting my walking gait and overall mobility on my right side. I hadn\u2019t even realized.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, visiting a neurologist confirmed the diagnosis. That was almost two years ago. As much as I didn\u2019t want to learn about Parkinson\u2019s potential devastation, I became knowledgeable enough to know I had to find a way to combat it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is where the lemonade gets made.<\/p>\n<p>Study after study have found that exercise is an invaluable tool in the fight. Some suggest that continuous, intensive training may confer neuroprotection and slow, stop, or reverse the progression of Parkinson\u2019s or promote neuro-restoration. Armed with that knowledge, I decided to be all in with my personal fight against PD.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Rock Steady Boxing, a program designed in 2006 by a Parkinson\u2019s sufferer for those fighting the disease. To date they have trained more than 50,000 PD boxers in 900 facilities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, I have been attending training sessions at the New York Fitness and Boxing Gym twice and now three times a week. The training by Coach Michelle Marcisak is a solid hour of focused exercises for flexibility, balance, mental focus, agility, and, of course, boxing. RSB is open to all levels of PD sufferers.<\/p>\n<p>I am so convinced that Rock Steady Boxing provides such huge benefits that I was interviewed by Dr. Akshay Syal of NBC News Daily when they came to film <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/dEM7NgSc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a segment about the program<\/a>. You see, I am not only fighting for myself, but sharing my experience\u2014which has effectively kept the symptoms status quo, and in some regards improving\u2014to inspire others diagnosed with or supporting loved ones with Parkinson\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the time being it will be: get up, hit the gym, and get to work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>View the article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2023\/01\/22\/oped-parkinsons-disease-boxing\/\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen life hands you lemons, make lemonade,\u201d goes the adage. I find myself once again dealing with something I never saw in my future. Coming out of my lengthy hospital stay battling Covid-19, I noticed an involuntary movement in my right thumb and foot. 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