Davis Phinney Foundation

Every victory counts

Website link: https://davisphinneyfoundation.org/

Charity to Donate: https://secure2.convio.net/dpf/site/Donation2

About Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s:

Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s provides a wide range of helpful resources, help, and several types of assistance and guidance for those living with Parkinson’s to live well and do their best improving their quality of life.

They are actively involved in creating awareness about the latest research in Parkinson’s, different types of therapies and assistance available to Parkinson’s patients when it comes to exercise, medication, deep brain stimulation, coping with anxiety, diet, or any other aspect of Parkinson’s.

One can explore several of their blog posts, webinars on different topics. The include different types of therapies and assistance that can help a Parkinson’s patient. On can find information on topics such as physical therapy to speech language therapy to nutrition, medications, deep brain stimulations, and complementary therapies, as well as how to deal with different issues connected to Parkinson’s such as bladder issues, constipation, depression, emotional health, balance, motor symptoms etc.

Please check their website to find more information on the kind of problem you seek more assistance on https://davisphinneyfoundation.org/resources/topics/

They also have a Parkinson’s podcast, and they regularly share success stories of Parkinson’s patients living well today with different types of therapies. They also bring to light every new research that has happened and is happening in the field of Parkinson’s that includes both conventional and alternative ways to help Parkinson’s patients.

To find insight from a wide range of doctors, therapists, researchers, and dozens of people who are living well today with Parkinson’s and to learn about some of the most overlooked topics in Parkinson’s such as the focus on exercise, nutrition, emotional health, along with medication, and other therapies, one may consider ordering their manual or downloading their digital copy of the “Every victory counts” manual.

It provides the most holistic and pro-active self care management of Parkinson’s https://davisphinneyfoundation.org/every-victory-counts-manual/

Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s helps to fund several research projects in the field of Parkinson’s that has potential impact on improving the quality of life for Parkinson’s patients. They partner with leading researchers and institutions to fund studies that shows promise to help change how people live with Parkinson’s.

Davis Phinney Foundation has funded over 30 different studies in the field of Parkinson’s focused specifically on nutrition, gait, speech, telemedicine, alternative therapies, and other interventions that impacts quality of life.

Some of the research they have funded starting from 2007 to 2022. Some of the ground breaking research they have supported were in the area of Deep brain stimulation therapy and its impact on balance and gait in Parkinson’s patients, and the neurological mechanisms that underlie the therapeutic benefits.

Other research work demonstrates the help of exercise, rhythmic auditory stimulation, gait training, aerobic exercise, community cycling classes organized by YMCA along with in-home programs can reduce the risk of falling, increase speed of walking, and improve quality of life for Parkinson’s patients and even slow progression of Parkinson’s in newly diagnosed patients reducing their needs for medications.

They have involved alternative therapies in their research funding to explore role of Tai Chi that can help integrate motor and non motor functions and has potential to improve motor symptoms in Parkinson’s patients.

There is emerging evidence that Parkinson’s patients do suffer from weak muscle strength:

High load resistance training can improve muscle strength and help obtain muscle hypertrophy.

However, in Parkinson’s patients employing high intensity training or high load exercises is not possible and appropriate. However, blood flow restriction training combines low intensity with blood flow occlusion to produce same results as high intensity training. Blood flow restriction exercises is another domain of Parkinson’s research that Davis Phinney foundation supports.

To learn more about the research they support, please visit their website https://davisphinneyfoundation.org/research/

Having seen my own grandmother go through Parkinson’s in life, it truly motivated me to support this cause and bring more awareness among people about this noble work being done in the area of Parkinson’s research that may help families and people around the world who need help.

To encourage further research to fight this disease, I request all our members and everyone who visit our website, and those who have witnessed Parkinson’s in their family or life in any way and care about making this disease not as challenging and degrading to one’s quality of life to please donate to this foundation.

Your donation goes to fund more ground breaking research in Parkinson’s and help patients across the globe live a more holistic and healthier life than they could have imagined. What I liked the most about their research is that it is not just focused on conventional medicine but also focus their research on many alternative ways that can help Parkinson’s patients.

Please visit Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s website for donation to support their cause: https://secure2.convio.net/dpf/site/Donation2