Parkinson's disease: Intensive exercise helps ease symptoms
Share on Pinterest Health experts recommend regular exercise for people with Parkinson’s disease. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images Researchers are reporting that high intensity exercise can help ease symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Experts say the benefits are apparent in both the early and later stages of disease. They add that exercise helps people with Parkinson’s disease by improving brain function, balance, and mobility. Intensive exercise might slow the course of Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to research published on July 14 in the journal Science Advances . In their research involving laboratory rodents, neuroscientists from the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University, Rome Campus, and A. Gemelli IRCCS Polyclinic Foundation identified a new mechanism responsible for the positive benefits of exercise on brain plasticity. The scientists reported that activities performed in the early stages of the disease can induce beneficial effects on movement control — even after disc...