April was Parkinson's Awareness Month
April is nationally recognized as Parkinson?s Awareness month thousands in the Parkinson's community are advocating, educating and bringing awareness to the existence and reality of Parkinson?s Disease. Currently there are 1.5 million Americans living with Parkinson's disease and 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.
On April 4th, I had the honor of photographing another Victory Summit for the Davis Phinney Foundation.
There were so many amazing moments throughout the day. Matt Ford, a specialist in Movement Science from the Physical Therapy Department at the University of Alabama go the whole room up and dancing around to the music of local band, "Flying Jenny."
There was a panel discussion with 3 patients about (DBS) deep brain stimulation. DBS uses a surgically implanted device (similar to a heart pacemaker) to deliver electrical stimulation to targeted areas in the brain that control movement, blocking the abnormal nerve signals that cause tremor and PD symptoms. It was a striking display when the DBS was turned off, the tremors became obvious until the unit was turned back on.
As is the tradition at the Victory Summit, Davis made a running leap for the stage. Davis spoke about the importance of moments of victory in each day, and got everyone hungry for a slice of apple pie.
He closed out the powerful and informative day with a Victory salute with the crowd.
April is nationally recognized as Parkinson?s Awareness month thousands in the Parkinson's community are advocating, educating and bringing awareness to the existence and reality of Parkinson?s Disease. Currently there are 1.5 million Americans living with Parkinson's disease and 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.
On April 4th, I had the honor of photographing another Victory Summit for the Davis Phinney Foundation.
There were so many amazing moments throughout the day. Matt Ford, a specialist in Movement Science from the Physical Therapy Department at the University of Alabama go the whole room up and dancing around to the music of local band, "Flying Jenny."
There was a panel discussion with 3 patients about (DBS) deep brain stimulation. DBS uses a surgically implanted device (similar to a heart pacemaker) to deliver electrical stimulation to targeted areas in the brain that control movement, blocking the abnormal nerve signals that cause tremor and PD symptoms. It was a striking display when the DBS was turned off, the tremors became obvious until the unit was turned back on.
As is the tradition at the Victory Summit, Davis made a running leap for the stage. Davis spoke about the importance of moments of victory in each day, and got everyone hungry for a slice of apple pie.
He closed out the powerful and informative day with a Victory salute with the crowd.
posted by Peggy Dyer at
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I encourage you to visit www.specterforthecure.com to see how together, we can unstrangle the cure and medical innovation with Sen. Arlen Specter?s help. I hope that we can soon bridge the gap from medical breakthroughs to the bedside of ailing Americans.
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