My main take away from Haleigh's case study was helpful repetitive exercise can be for a client with PD. Haleigh showed us progress of one of her mom's client's from using a 4 week intensive program called the LSVT BIG program, which is a program that focuses on using big muscle movements to help with gait, coordination and bed mobility. Haleigh showed her client's progress through videos taken one month apart and the improvement of her client's mobility is incredible. This program increased his ability to participate in things that interested him, like going out to eat with his wife.
Again with the cheesy romantic movies, but I can't help myself. For my NeuroNote, I decided to do re-watch the Notebook for the 1,000th time. It's funny what you notice in movies when you watch them looking for specific things. This time around I wasn't watching to swoon over the relationship between the two main characters, Allie and Noah, but for the movies portrayal of dementia. The Notebook is arguably one of the most popular romance movies of my time. It centers around the rocky relationship of Noah and Allie. I won't go into too much detail giving a summary, but basically the couple breaks up while they are young and find each other again when they are older. Allie leaves her rich, handsome, smitten fiancé for Noah and they marry and have kids. However, the story of Noah and Allie is actually told by Noah, who is reading it out loud from a book to Allie in an assisted living home. The couple is elderly, and Allie has severe dementia. She has no idea who h...
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