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Building Your Parkinson’s Care Team: Key Roles and Responsibilities
A recent post on the blog of the National Parkinson’s Foundation asks a provocative question: Will involving a neurologist in the care of a Parkinson’s disease patient makes a difference in outcome? In her post on the NPF blog entitled “The Case for All Parkinson’s Disease Patients to be Co-managed by a Primary Care-Neurologist Team,” Tennessee-based…
Parkinson’s Diagnosis and Treatment: Cycling’s Role
While The Theracycle Blog has principally focused on how stationery cycling can provide therapeutic benefits to people who live with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, recently published research from a Japanese university suggests that the ability to ride a bicycle can help doctors determine whether the patient has Parkinson’s disease or atypical parkinsonism. It’s somewhat…
Theracycle: Pioneering Small Business Innovation in Fitness
We’re excited to announce that our company has been awarded a coveted “Small Business Innovation Research” grant from the NIH to help advance our efforts to understand how using a Theracycle can help people who live with Parkinson’s Disease. See our October 17, 2011 Press Release… The Exercycle Company Awarded NIH SBIR Grant to Enhance Theracycle…
Welcome to The Theracycle Company: A Message from CEO Peter Blumenthal
Peter Blumenthal, CEO, The Exercycle Company: I’m happy to welcome you to The Theracycle Blog. While part of the charter of this blog is to increase awareness of our motorized exercise bicycle (the Theracycle), we’ve also launched the blog to inform, assist, inspire and interact with people with movement disorders, Twelve years ago, I was…
The Best Parkinson’s Blogs: Resources for Support and Education
People have a lot to say and share about Parkinson’s Disease. From “patients” (hate that word”) to caregivers, physical therapists, researchers, medical professionals, associations and membership groups — there are THOUSANDS of blogs online which are focused on various aspects of Parkinson’s. With so many blogs to choose from, you may be asking: “Which are the…
