Christine Pratt

I do the same thing!!  And I also found that putting something the floor helps me raise my feet to step over and if I do this for a few steps it helps me get back to a normal gait.

I find that if I can change position and move my upper torso I can get out of the freeze.   Sometimes I throw something on the ground so I have something to step over.   I have used a wadded-up paper towel or a shoe.  A funny story – once I froze in a store after buying a package of M&Ms.  I threw the M&Ms to the floor to step over but befor…[Read more]

Before I was diagnosed with PD a friend pulled me aside and told me he thought my job was “killing” me. I had sharp pain in my left shoulder for almost two years and this caused my left arm to not swing when I walked.  I believe the “frozen shoulder” was the result of extensive high stress in both my personal life and with my job.  Being a Type A…[Read more]