{"id":165599442,"date":"2010-04-01T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165599442"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:50:42","slug":"cycling-provides-a-break-for-some-with-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165599442","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Provides a Break for Some With Parkinson\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Underneath all the practical reasons for cycling there is almost a magical quality that transforms the mind and spirit as evident in this article:<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cI said, \u2018This cannot be,\u2019 \u201d Dr. Bloem, a professor of neurology and medical director of the hospital\u2019s Parkinson\u2019s Center, recalled in a telephone interview. \u201cThis man has end-stage Parkinson\u2019s disease. He is unable to walk.\u201d<br \/>\nBut the man was eager to demonstrate, so Dr. Bloem took him outside where a nurse\u2019s bike was parked.<br \/>\n\u201cWe helped him mount the bike, gave him a little push, and he was gone,\u201d Dr. Bloem said. He rode, even making a U-turn, and was in perfect control, all his Parkinson\u2019s symptoms gone.<br \/>\nYet the moment the man got off the bike, his symptoms returned. He froze immediately, unable to take a step.<br \/>\nDr. Bloem made a video and photos of the man trying to walk and then riding his bike. The photos appear in the April 1 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.<br \/>\nAfter seeing that man, Dr. Bloem asked 20 other severely affected patients about riding a bike. It turned out that all could do it, though it is not clear why.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/01\/health\/01parkinsons.html?src=mv\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/01\/health\/01parkinsons.html?src=mv<\/a>oldId.20100401155025944<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underneath all the practical reasons for cycling there is almost a magical quality that transforms the mind and spirit as evident in this article: &#8230; \u201cI said, \u2018This cannot be,\u2019 \u201d Dr. Bloem, a professor of neurology and medical director of the hospital\u2019s Parkinson\u2019s Center, recalled in a telephone interview. \u201cThis man has end-stage Parkinson\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165599442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cycling Provides a Break for Some With Parkinson\u2019s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165599442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165599442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165599442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165599442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165599442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165599442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165599442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}