Exercise to improve movement, voice & cognition
Every Monday and Wednesday from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (ET)
Have you ever felt your steps get smaller or feet start to shuffle when talking with someone while walking? Or do you sometimes have to stop walking to be able to talk? Being able to perform two tasks at once is an important problem in Parkinson’s disease. Dual task training can help reduce these deficits.
Parkinson’s disease can affect both your cognitive abilities and motor skills. But here’s where the journey changes: Dual-task training has emerged as a way to improve all these challenges.
Join us in DT training classes to challenge your cognitive abilities, harmonize your voice and movement, and chart a course to better quality of life with PD.
Portuguese physiotherapist Josefa Domingos PhD and American speech language pathologist, John M. Dean, clinicians who specialize in Parkinson’s, develop these programs specifically for our Parkinson community, and in partnership with IPMDC.
Although this virtual series is online, it is live and includes time for participants to socialize and connect.
Mondays at 3:00 pm (ET)
Level 1: Prioritizing voice & cognition with a physical twist.
Dual task training prioritizing cognition and voice while performing low to moderate intensity physical movement. Special focus is on mastering each part individually, then progressing to combining them into one effortless activity.
Expect repetition, learning to set priority, feedback from the 2nd instructor assessing performance and giving real-time feedback to the group or individually via private chat.
Wednesdays at 3:00 pm (ET)
Level 2: Prioritizing physical with a cognitive & voice twist.
Dual task training prioritizing moderate to vigorous intensity physical movement with a cognitive/voice twist. Special focus is on performing the entire activity optimally, then progressing intensity by increasing speed, increasing variations and duration.
Expect fast progressions in physical challenges, varying of the priority, and alternating attention between the tasks.
Dual Task comes to northern Virginia!
Please visit ipmdc.org/boostcamp/ for videos about our previous boost camps and details about our next one!
Guide to Overcoming Exercise Barriers – 2024
Produced for Parkinson’s Europe
by Josefa Domingos, PhD