US EditionParkinson's patients in Brazil turn to a movement practice known as capoeira to ease symptoms
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Chicago Tribune
Independent EspañolBy ELÉONORE HUGHES RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired Brazilian teacher who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall constantly. That changed after she started attending a capoeira class in downtown Rio de Janeiro designed specifically for people with the neurodegenerative disease. Capoeira is a movement practice that originated within Brazil’s large slave communities,…
Winnipeg Free Press
Parkinson's patients in Brazil turn to a movement practice known as capoeira to ease symptoms
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San Mateo Daily Journal
A martial art that emerged among the enslaved in Brazil is helping Parkinson's patients
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time.
According to current estimates, up to 4,000 people with Parkinson's live in Luxembourg.
Muscles that tense, hands that tremble, gait that becomes unbalanced, posture that slumps. Then the word that stumbles. Finally, often, depression that sets in. It's Parkinson's. Parkinson's disease. With Alzheimer's, the...
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