Parkinson’s disease can make many of your daily activities harder. the tremors, muscle weakness and muscle stiffness that you often have can make many things harder, including bathing, eating and walking. Fortunately, the medical community is starting to better understand the disease, so there are some simple tips that they recommend that can make your life easier.
The Importance of Exercise
Exercise is essential to manage your symptoms. Exercise is thought to be a possible neuro-protective measure, and can be just as important as medication in limiting your symptoms.
Stretching and flexibility exercises can make your muscles looser and improve your flexibility. These things can make your daily tasks easier:
- Face a wall eight or nine inches from you and reach your arms overhead. Then put your hands on the wall for balance and try to stretch out your back and arms.
- Put your back against the wall and march in place. Lift your knees as high as you can.
- Sit in a chair with a straight, high back and stretch out your arms behind it. Bring your shoulders back as much as you can. As you are stretching, lift your head high, towards the ceiling.
- Sit in a chair, and stomp your feet up and down as you pump your arms back and forth at the sides.
Remedies at Home for Tremors
The best thing that you can try for tremors is to take your drugs for your PD on time. The timing of drugs for the disease is very important. Medication starts to wear off after a certain period, so you should be sure that the time span between medication is right. If symptoms begin before you take the next pill, work with your doctor to adjust your medication schedule.
Certain dietary habits can also have an effect on your medications and how well they manage your PD symptoms. If your diet is heavy in protein, this can limit how well your body absorbs levodopa. This is a common drug that is used to manage PD. That is why doctors recommend that people who have PD should limit their protein to 12% of their daily caloric intake. You should get used to reading food labels and working with a nutritionist in some cases to keep to a low protein diet.
Also, you should try to eat fruits and vegetables. It is thought that they help to protect the function of nerve cells and keep your symptoms under control.
People who have common PD symptoms can have difficulty writing, but we have some excellent PD products that can really make your life easier. A new product is the OrbiTouch Adapted Keyless Keyboard. This product was designed for people who lack sufficient finger and hand dexterity to use a keyboard. You do not need to be able to move your fingers or wrists to use this keyboard. You move two domes on the keyless keyboard to correspond to letters of the alphabet. The Adult Weighted Deluxe Universal Holder fits around a pen or pencil and makes it easier for you to grip the writing device.
