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Moving Along: A graphic medicine novel about Parkinson’s Dance by Lisbeth Frølunde, Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø and Louise Phillips

December 14, 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition clinically identified by the hallmark features of shaking, stiffness and slowness. PD is also marked by a multitude of non-motor symptoms like constipation, cognitive changes and sleep disorders. Any number of symptoms and intensities can exist in each patient, leading to a remarkably heterogenous patient population. While effective symptomatic treatments exist, the only known means of quantitatively slowing progression to date is exercise, specifically cardiovascular exercise that increases heart rate (1).

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In Book Reviews, Caregiving, Health, Medical Research, Narrative Medicine Tags parkinson's disease, dance therapy, graphic comics, graphic medicine, caregivers
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