We are Ping Pong Parkinson.
Mission:
To help anyone with Parkinson's Disease
through ping pong (primarily) – and to have fun while doing it.
Join us
Just bring yourself on any Wednesday at 7:30 pm and you will be welcome. Let the club's front desk know that you are here for Parkinson's Ping Pong and they will point you to us. The club entrance fee is $10 (if this is problematic for you, please let Art or Nenad know and we will make arrangements). If you think you will want to play regularly, consider becoming a member of WTTC. To get started, we will do a few exercises to warm up and then we will play ping pong. The club will provide the paddles and balls. We have all levels of players in our group, from beginners to accomplished players and volunteers who are happy to provide basic instruction.
Wednesdays 7:30pm-8:30pm
News
How to Decompress for the Holidays (without a hyperbaric chamber)
This so-called joyous time of the year has its perverse, paradoxical elements. Christmas and New Year’s Day can make things markedly more stressful than they already are. Your cortisol levels (a stress hormone) can skyrocket. Here are some hints at combatting these...
read moreOn Greying
I’m not what I used to be. (None of us are.) These days I find myself getting tired playing ping pong, frequently needing to sit down and take a rest. There was a time, not that long ago actually, when I could play for hours at a time, and I could do hard physical...
read morePing Pong Grieving
(Warning: the following blog contains more flapdoodle [screwy hooey] from Lao Du. PPP is not responsible for the inanities contained below.) Losing a close match can change your life for the worse. It’s like a death. Pure despair. Although losing is a part of life –...
read moreTai Chi II
In 2012, there appeared an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (a gold standard) about tai chi and Parkinson’s Disease which basically endorsed it as beneficial. Subsequently, the National Parkinson’s Foundation came on board with the same conclusion and...
read moreTai Chi and Parkinson’s Disease I
There have been several studies that conclude that Tai Chi is a very good therapeutic modality for Parkinson's Disease. We will have more to say about this in future blogs, but for now I'd like to bring to your attention a video I ran into produced by Brigham and...
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