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keeping your mitochondria healthy

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Balance & Gait issues in Parkinson's disease: 1 step at a time

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02 hi everyone we're so excited to have you join us for this webinar one step at a time managing gate and balance issues in 0:08 Parkinson's I'm Becca Miller I am a person living with Parkinson's I was diagnosed when I was in my late 30s my 0:17 daughter was nine months old um I'm currently a single mom working as 0:23 a psychologist at the Yale University school of medicine and I'm a member of the Michael J fox Foundation patient 0:29 Council um in September of 2021 I had DBS and had been learning to navigate my disease 0:36 after this procedure one of the best pieces of advice I received when I was diagnosed is to take control of my 0:42 disease so it didn't take control of me and as we know PD impacts our mobility 0:48 in in big and small ways um increasingly we're gaining understanding of therapies and 0:54 techniques that can help us improve our gait and balance and tips as well that can help informed 1:00 Care Partners on how to support us that i...