When living with Parkinson’s: Fitness Counts

KETTERING, Ohio (WKEF) — Saturday, May 11th, was Fitness Counts at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering.

It was a free event, hosted by the Parkinson’s Foundation, to help people living with the disease get out and move. Physical therapists from Kettering and Premier Health were out teaching different exercises and sharing the importance of staying active.

“Fitness helps to ease some of those movement disorders people living with Parkinson’s have; balance issues, mobility issues. Even some of the nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson’s, depression, anxiety, and constipation.” said Breck Jordan, board president of the Great Lakes chapter of the Parkinson’s Foundation.

Fitness counts was new here this year for the Miami Valley but it’s a nationwide event. It replaced the foundation’s typical spring event, their moving day walk. That will now be happening on September 28th.

To register for the walk, visit the foundation’s website.