Parkinson's Foundation 'Moving Day' increases disease awareness and funding for treatment

Parkinson's Foundation 'Moving Day' increases disease awareness and funding for treatment

Every six minutes, someone is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, according to an incidence study by the Parkinson's Foundation, a non-profit. The foundation is working to lessen the number of people suffering from the disease by hosting 'Moving Day' at Hart Park in Wauwatosa. Those with Parkinson's, friends and family walked together to raise money for research, care and education, while also combating the symptoms of the disease through exerci…

Jaume Pou (53 years old) was diagnosed with parkinson in March 2023, although the first symptoms had already appeared to him in 2018. “It’s one of the problems of the disease, the late diagnosis in certain patients,” he explains. It all started with sustained pain and a paresthesia (enumeration and stiffness) in the left leg. He defiled by different specialists, also by neurology, pera no one thought it could be parkinson. So he spent four hard …