Michael R. Scott

Because of increasing COVID infections in our gym and locally, my wife and I had to quit our MWF gym routine of weight training and computerized bike cardio and core. I immediately ordered a stationary bike and universal gym and hand weights. Sadly, it appears the whole world was doing the same thing! Bottom line 60 days without my vigorous…[Read more]

Phil

Thanks! Part of my probable cause goes back to my Military Days also! US Army Airborne (Special Forces: 1963-1973 Active & NG). If you knew any “Recon. Marines”, we all eventually ended up getting concussions mostly from those night jumps!😣 Then a number of hazmat exposures both Military and Civilian as I became a Firefighter/Paramedic whi…[Read more]

Phil,

Would you mind sharing your age and how long ago you where diagnosed with PD?

Also, do you have any idea what caused or could have caused your PD?

Mike

Dear Mary Beth,

15 min stretches and core training

30 min weight training (nose to toes)

15-30 minutes on a computerized exercise bike on random and 10

Been doing  for over 50 years since SF days and it really helps!… 🙂

Bob,

Thanks for bringing this new study.

I’d read it and was going to post it here, but you beat me to it!… This could be a really BIG deal!… 🙂

Mary,

Your John and I also have several things in common. I have had 5 surgeries in the past 20 years. My right hip had to be replaced two times, then my left shoulder had to have a bone spur removed and the muscles repaired, then my right shoulder for the same problem and finally my left hip. An interesting thing happened in recovery room as I…[Read more]

Mary,
I believe you put your direct e-mail on this forum, but I can not find it. I wrote you a longer return letter before I realized your’s was on this site. My direct e-mail is [email protected]. I would like to get my response directly to you and John.
Mike Scott

Mary,

I’m finally back into my gym, but they now require masks. My “Nose To Toes” workout is very intense for an hour (15 min. core, 20 min heavy weight training and 25 minutes cardio-vascular on a computerized recumbent bike in the Cardio Theater….After a lot of study and trial and error, I finally picked this mask. With the exhalation valves…[Read more]

Dear Firefighters,

I am glad to see that more firefighters are finding there way to this site! I was 29 years with the Salt Lake City Fire Department as a Firefighter/Paramedic and Captain. I am now 74 and was diagnosed about eight years ago. During my carrier I had about 5 concussions and 5 Hazardous Materials Exposures. I had stayed in pretty…[Read more]

Dear Ann Marie,

Sorry that I did not explain the reason for falling when biking during an outbreak of my hand and arm tremors. At the time of my first fall, I was on a narrow part of the trail in a rock fall area and missed a slight turn because of my tremors and fell downhill into the steep rockfall! That fall cracked my helmet!!!

The other…[Read more]

Dear Ann Marie,

This is Mike Scott. Sorry I haven’t responded to your questions sooner. In my opinion, your body will tell you when you need to begin your medications… Most of my biking took place at around 8,000-9,500 ft in the Wasatch Mountains close to the Alta Ski Resort, which is very similar to your altitudes around Leadville in the…[Read more]

Dear Tina,

Sounds like you raised a daughter with love, encouragement and support. And, now when you need help at an age, much younger than you ever imagined, she is there for you. You will get through these new problems and now you have to let her do for you, those things that you did for her, not so long ago… I had a wonderful Grandmother who…[Read more]

Tina,
Mine began as an essential tremor in my left had and then went to Parkinson’s when it got worse. I have a history of an almost life ending skull fx. and concussion and crush injury on the right side of my head and body some 47 years ago. I was diagnosed about four years ago with PD. I was put on Azelect and carbo/leba at that time. Despite…[Read more]

Tina,
Mine began as an essential tremor in my left had and then went to Parkinson’s when it got worse. I have a history of an almost life ending skull fx. and concussion and crush injury on the right side of my head and body some 47 years ago. I was diagnosed about four years ago with PD. I was put on Azelect and carbo/leba at that time. Despite…[Read more]

Have you considered guided or targeted Ultrasound…. There are lots of articles about this process and I believe medicare has begun paying for that procedure which is much less invasive and is having great outcomes.
Mike Scott

Jean,

You will be missed, that is for sure! May you have good results in your battle with  Parkinson’s…. Will look forward to your articles…. 🙂

Mike Scott

Mary,

I am also a retired Captain Firefighter/Paramedic from a major city who retired after 29 years at age 51. I was diagnosed at 70 and now am 74. There are about 10 of us from our Fire Department that have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s and  two things that we all have in common are Concussions and Hazmat Exposures. Because of our annual Co…[Read more]

Skip,

I just read our note about Mtn biking and wanted to share my experience with the group… I have several injuries to my hips and legs that probably goes back to my SF Airborne days, Ski Patrol, etc. That said, in the past I both backpacked and Mtn Biked about equal. But since my Parkinson’s diagnosis, I’ve found that hiking was getting more…[Read more]

Dear Mary Beth,

Yes, the same thing has happened in our marriage also. My wife has been a very successful Interior Designer and when we had the “talk” about 10 years ago that she did not have to work anymore as I had a great retirement and our investment account had grown so well that we really did not need her to work… Her response was, “Well…[Read more]