Parkinson's disease:- Julie Jones Exercise & Physical activity; Getting started & staying active

We are all becoming very aware of the huge benefits of exercise with PD but where do you start and what do you need to do?Julie Jones is a very experienced physiotherapist with a specialist interest in Parkinson’s and so is perfectly qualified to guide PwP to get more active and feel the benefits of exercise. This is an excellent and natural follow-up to the presentation by Prof Bas Bloem, also available on this channel and highly recommended if you have not watched it.If you would like a copy of Julie's slides then please email us at [email protected] Julie is a clinical academic fellow, jointly funded by Parkinson’s UK and the Chief Scientist Office and is a senior lecturer at Robert Gordon University. She is also a member of the Strategy Advisory board of Parkinson’s UK in Scotland and chairs the Scotland wide Parkinson’s Active project. She is also a member of the Parkinson’s UK College of Experts grant review panel, and sits on the Research Participation Steering Group at Parkinson’s UK. Within the Parkinson’s Excellence Network, Julie is the co-lead of the Exercise hub, which runs education events to support exercise professionals nationally to improve and develop service provision for people with Parkinson’s.Julie’s current role spans research, clinical and academic. Julie is currently funded to explore the feasibility and acceptability of a multicomponent intervention designed to support physical activity participation among people with Parkinson’s. Julie has an honorary physiotherapy position within NHS Grampian, and her main clinical interests include exercise and gait dysfunction.Julie can be contacted:-The Robert Gordon University  email [email protected] was the keynote speaker in 2022 at The Edinburgh Parkinson's Lecture   • Edinburgh Parkins...  IF YOU CAN, PLEASE DONATE TO NO SILVER BULLET 4PD. We are self-funded, so pay for our costs ourselves, which include licenses for our secure Webinar platform, our Podcast hosting platform and soon-to-be-launched paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram so that we can target and share these sessions with more PwP worldwide, in the hope that some of our speaker's content, may improve the symptoms of another PwPThank you & just follow this link:-https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted...If you want to join our mailing list for future speaker sessions then please email us at [email protected]