Parkinson's and climbing

TLDR - climbing helps

I do recommend reading the full article  https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-colorado-parkinson-group-climbing-stave.html 

Excerpt -

For 12 years, Paul Stroud's done everything he can to combat the effects of Parkinson's disease. He had a pair of stimulators implanted deep in his brain. He takes the standard medications to treat symptoms. He even briefly tried out tai chi.

Over the past couple of months, however, the 71-year-old's discovered an effective form of therapy he may have never tried otherwise—one that takes him vertical.

When Stroud sheds his walker to put on a harness and scale a climbing wall at Movement gym in Golden, his battle with Parkinson's—and the issues with balance and tremors that accompany it—dissipates as he pulls himself up.

"I don't do real well with heights, so I'm not a big fanatic about going up the wall. But it's fun, and it's rewarding," the Littleton resident says. "I've steadily improved in my climbing, and I'm doing routes where I might give out and try it again, and then go farther. Get all the way up there.

Interesting article. I have epilepsy and the meds/seizures have given me a slight tremor that comes and goes and some fine motor issues. It has never come up while climbing though, or after climbing. And it seems drop in frequency and intensity when I'm climbing a lot. I always wondered if there could be a link.