Published in the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy as an open access article, we have an experiment in which several factors were used to determine participants’ preferences in a hypothetical exercise program.
Conclusions were:
People with Parkinson’s disease were more willing to participate in exercise programs that cost less, involve less travel, provide physical or psychological benefits and are supervised by qualified professionals. To enable more people with Parkinson’s disease to exercise, health services should provide programs addressing these factors and account for sex differences. [emphasis added. Men were more likely to favor strength training, women were averse to aerobic exercise, and folks already exercising 300 minutes per week were less likely to favor adding more exercises.]
The group to which I subscribe on their YouTube channel, and support in various ways, is Power For Parkinson’s® (PFP). I also am a member of the Georgetown Area Parkinson’s Support group (GAPS) and the Capital Area Parkinson’s Society (CAPS) Both PFP and GAPS sponsor several exercise groups aimed directly at people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and their needs, so I am usually working out at least one hour daily. So I might fall into the last group of folks not willing to add more exercises.
On a different tangent, A couple of articles showed up that deal with the idea of Multiple Intelligences. Actually, one is a book excerpt with selected portions available on Google Books, and the other is the cover, Table of Contents, Bibliography, and Index of a different book. Granted, the Index does list Parkinson’s Disease on at least 2 pages. Why bother? Because, as those who have read the earlier blog post(s) on Moses Maimonides and Me, I don’t particularly subscribe to Maimonides’ categories of four ways in which humans strive to achieve perfection.
These books are:
Eastern European Perspectives on Emotional Intelligence
in which some of the available pages include charts of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, and some of the results which seem to show a clustering of several factors (using factor analysis). Since that is outside of my area of expertise, I won’t comment on it. (This is all copyrighted material, provided only for personal education, etc.
The other is Mind Ecologies: Body, Brain and World which has the extensive bibliography and index. Probably well worth looking into the bibliography, if one has a mind to do so (but not today). The TOC reads:
1. Life, Experimentalism, and Valuation 16
2. Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science 51
3. Social Cohesion, Experience, and Aesthetics 94
4. Pragmatism and Affective Cognition 124
5. Perception, Affect, World 156
6. Broadening Ecologies 184
and the whole thing is copyright The Columbia University Press.
My pulmonologist prescribed a nap in the morning and afternoon, and since I missed the morning nap, will head off to do one this afternoon.
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bob's brain: living well with a movement disorder and other comorbidities 