A patient of mine — I’ll call him Frank — fell in his driveway last spring. Within a week he had a physical therapy referral in hand, a fall-risk assessment scheduled, and a home exercise plan taped to his refrigerator. It took another eighteen months, and a...
This month I had the opportunity to provide two community lectures on the topic of Swallowing and Parkinson’s disease. Following my presentation/s I was struck by the number of people with Parkinson’s (PWP) who came up to me to ask a question who have never been...
