Listed below are responses from respondents to the 2021 Parkinsons Recovery Survey who reported therapies that were helping them feel better.
Listed below are the top 10 therapies rank ordered from most to least useful in terms of the most frequently reported useful therapies. Please take note of the finding that exercise ranks at the top of the list!
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- Exercise
- Medication
- Diet
- Meditation
- Physical Therapy
- QiGong
- Photobiomodulation (light therapy)
- Massage
- Probiotics
- Avoidance of Stress
Below – the columns (worse, same, better) indicate whether the respondent reported they were feeling worse, about the same or better over the past year. Keep in mind that respondents usually reported more than one therapy to be useful.
| worse | same | better | Totals | ||
| Acupuncture |
2 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
|
| acupressure |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Amino Acid Therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Art Therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Ayurveda |
2 |
2 |
|||
| High Dose B1 |
2 |
2 |
|||
| Bone Marrow Stem Cells |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Baoding Ball Exercise |
1 |
1 |
|||
| breathing exercises |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| bromandane |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Cannabis |
2 |
2 |
|||
| CBD Oil |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Chinese Medicine |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
|
| Chiropractic |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Cranial Sacral Therapy |
2 |
1 |
|||
| Dancing |
2 |
2 |
|||
| Deep Brain Stimulation |
3 |
3 |
|||
| DBT Therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Deep Breathing |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Dental | |||||
| Removed Root Canal |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Treated Tooth Infection |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Diet | |||||
| Adequate Nutrition |
1 |
2 |
3 |
||
| Acid Neutralization |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Coconut Oil |
2 |
2 |
|||
| Drink Warm Tea with Medications |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Fish Oil |
2 |
2 |
|||
| Grundy Diet |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Healthy Diet |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Low Carb Diet |
1 |
1 |
|||
| MCT Oil |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Mediterian Diet |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Nutritional Consults |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Nuts and Seeds |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Organic Food |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Paleo Diet |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Plant Based Diet |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Protein Shakes |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Vegan Diet |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Wahls Diet |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Duo Nebulizer |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Energy Work – Reiki |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Filtered Water |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Fisher Walace Stimulator |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Focused Ultrasound |
1 |
1 |
|||
| General Exercise |
8 |
29 |
5 |
42 |
|
| Fast Walking |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Swimming |
2 |
2 |
|||
| Theracycle |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
| Stretching |
3 |
2 |
5 |
||
| Walking |
3 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
|
| Yoga |
2 |
2 |
4 |
||
| fava beans |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Follows Passion |
1 |
2 |
3 |
||
| Faith |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Family Constelations |
1 |
1 |
|||
| fight Parkinson’s Without Drugs |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Grape Seed Extract |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Heating Pad |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Hydration Therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Jin Shin Jitsu |
1 |
1 |
|||
| journaling |
1 |
1 |
|||
| LDN |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Medical Marijuana |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Massages |
3 |
2 |
5 |
||
| Medical dousing to improve facial expression |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Medications |
11 |
20 |
4 |
35 |
|
| Minimal Medications |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Meditation |
3 |
10 |
3 |
16 |
|
| medlens dictation |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Mindfulness |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Mitocondrial Support |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Mucuna |
2 |
1 |
3 |
||
| Music |
2 |
1 |
3 |
||
| Nerve Tonic (Hylands) |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Neurofield Therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| nicotene gum |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Nurturing Relationships |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Osteopathic Manipulation |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Ozone Therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Parkinson’s Support Group |
1 |
1 |
|||
| PEMF |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Peptide Injections |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Photobiomodulation |
2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
|
| Physical Therapy |
7 |
2 |
9 |
||
| Neurological Physical Therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Pilates |
2 |
1 |
3 |
||
| Probiotics |
1 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
|
| Positive Attitude – Talking with positive people |
2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
| Puzzles |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Qi Gong |
5 |
3 |
1 |
9 |
|
| Relationsnships |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Rest When Needed |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Rife |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Roller Sticks |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Sauna |
2 |
2 |
|||
| Scrabble |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Self Compassion |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Sleep |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Smile Therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Solice |
2 |
1 |
3 |
||
| Sound therapy |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Speak out loudly |
1 |
1 |
|||
| spiritual practice |
2 |
1 |
3 |
||
| Stress Avoidance – Reduce Anxiety |
5 |
5 |
|||
| Sunshine |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Supplements |
4 |
3 |
1 |
8 |
|
| Amway Nutrilites |
1 |
1 |
|||
| B Vitamins |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Carbolic Acid |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Circumin |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Citicoline |
1 |
1 |
|||
| CoQ10 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
||
| Elderberry |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Glutathione |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Grape Seed Extract |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Homocysteine Factors |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Iodine |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Lion’s Mane |
1 |
1 |
|||
| LIthium |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Magnesium |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
| Phosfood (Standard Process) |
1 |
1 |
|||
| R Lipoic Acid |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Restore Gold |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Rhodiola |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Tumeric |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Vitamin C |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Zinc |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Tai Chi |
2 |
1 |
3 |
||
| Tesla BioHealing |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Trauma Release Exercises |
1 |
1 |
|||
| Vitamins |
2 |
3 |
5 |
||
| Wine |
1 |
1 |
|||
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