Exercise to improve movement, voice & cognition
Dual Task for Parkinson’s
Every Monday from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (ET)
on Zoom
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.
Cardio+Cog
Every Wednesday from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (ET)
on Zoom
Your Wednesday Dual Task for Parkinson’s class is getting a new name and a new time.
What’s changing:
• New name: Cardio+Cog for Parkinson’s
• New time: 2 PM Eastern, starting Wed 26th August
If you’ve been attending Dual Task for Parkinson’s there’s no need to register again as your link will be the same. Zoom will continue to send you an updated notification and calendar invite on the day.
Why the change?
“Dual task” is primarily a research term. It doesn’t capture what the class actually feels like. The new name does: we train the heart and the head in the same session. This type of training is what makes it easier to walk, hold your posture, and stay steady on your feet while doing additional tasks like talking, thinking or carrying something.
The name is new. The goal is the same. The format will have a few small adjustments, but the point of the class hasn’t changed.
You’ll get your 30 min of recommended aerobic/cardio workout and also short blocks of cognitive training – “Interval Cognitive-Motor Training”.
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 both of these virtual series are online, they are live and include time for participants to socialize and connect.
Mondays at 3:00 pm (ET).
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.
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