An Ayrshire woman with Parkinson's Disease says playing ping pong helps her symptoms.
Now at the age of 48, she has won medals playing table tennis at the national Parkinson's championships and hopes to help others get involved as well.The former PE teacher trains weekly in Drumchapel and helped set up the Parkinson's Scottish Table Tennis Association.'Benefits are so great'programme: "With Parkinson's, there are motor and non-motor symptoms and one issue I have is that I freeze and get stuck.
"A lot of that is about stance and weight distribution, which has improved because I've practised it through table tennis.found that participants who played ping pong every week showed "significant improvements in speech, handwriting, getting dressed, getting out of bed, and walking".The study also found significant improvements in common Parkinson's symptoms including posture, rigidity, facial expression, hand tremors and slowness of movement.
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