PD - BENEFITS
BENEFITS SPECIFIC TO PD
After a randomized controlled trial of AT for Parkinson’s involving 24 weekly one-to-one classes, students with PD retained benefits even after one year.
Below are some of the benefits of Alexander lessons that students with PD have reported and that research on Alexander for PD has shown:
- Increased self-management of motor symptoms and over-stimulation
- Greater steadiness, uprightness, coordination, and mobility
- Decreased rigidity
- Improved performance across different activities, even without exercise
- Reduced depression
- Access to a calming strategy for the nervous system
- Less anxiety and fear of falls
- Restoration of some prior functioning
