{"id":1006,"date":"2024-05-21T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/your-top-questions-on-exercise-and-parkinsons-answered-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:00:04","slug":"your-top-questions-on-exercise-and-parkinsons-answered-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/your-top-questions-on-exercise-and-parkinsons-answered-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Top Questions on Exercise and Parkinson&#8217;s Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1006\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1006-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1006-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1006-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Exercise is a powerful tool for promoting brain health and living life with Parkinson\u2019s disease (PD). Regular exercise can reduce symptoms, help medication work better and even slow down disease progression. But it\u2019s sometimes easier said than done \u2014 life and symptoms can get in the way, and it can be a struggle to find a routine you\u2019ll stick to.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Rachel Dolhun, MD, DipABLM, movement disorder specialist, lifestyle medicine physician and senior vice president of medical communications at The Michael J. Fox Foundation, speaks with Cristina Col\u00f3n-Semenza, PhD, a physical therapist, rehab scientist and assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut, about exercise tips for life with PD. They answer frequently asked questions from the community on this topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaeljfox.org\/news\/your-top-questions-exercise-and-parkinsons-answered-ask-md-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise is a powerful tool for promoting brain health and living life with Parkinson\u2019s disease (PD). Regular exercise can reduce symptoms, help medication work better and even slow down disease progression. But it\u2019s sometimes easier said than done \u2014 life and symptoms can get in the way, and it can be a struggle to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 12:18:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}