Massage Assisting with Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is no stranger to me as m y grandmother was diagnosed with it the same year I was born. I love my grandmother dearly and often take her hand and help her through some daily activities when she seemed to have difficulty accomplishing a task. Shortly after finishing massage school my mother asked me to provide my grandmother with a m assage . I was not y e t e ducated w e ll enough then to understand the difference between a geriatric massage and a massage designed to assist clients living with PD, so the massage that I gave her did very little to help her symptoms. Now that I have finished a continuing education course and familiarized myself with massage for clients with PD I feel confident to assist most any client I may encounter living with PD. I, typically, am not a person who can go i...