I have the highest respect for the Parkinson Performance Centre
I have the highest respect for the what the Parkinson's Performance Centre is doing and achieving. I have read the prior reviews and you can believe them just as they are written.
I will share a slightly different viewpoint. I do not have Parkinson's. My wife was diagnosed six years ago with it. For five years we searched for a path that brought hope, progress and control over this affliction. We researched and tried several avenues to cope. Five years finally led us to this group. Gaia and her team are outstanding in all the ways you have already read about in other reviews.
What she and her team have done for me, the husband and partner of an individual with Parkinson's, is also extraordinary. Their communications extends to include partners/ family and have been valuable in helping me better understand how to cope and understand how a neurological disease like Parkinson's affects my wife when so much of the impact goes beyond physical symptoms. A second area of benefit for me is the recognition of the benefits from the program, which are clearly focused toward specific challenges of living withParkinson's, have universal benefit for all of human health. It has moved me from a "spectator and compassionate supporter" to a training and lifestyle partner with my wife. It is great for my health and great for our marriage and relationship. It most importantly provides me an active avenue to really walk the walk with my wife and truly support her as she endeavors through the challenges of training and staying motivated. Where I once felt a lack of understanding and not knowing how to respond, I now can stand alongside and encourage and train together with her leaving me feeling like I am truly helping make a difference in her efforts to combat the degenerative aspects of the disease.
The last, but not least, observation I would share is the strength and power of the community that the PPC has established. So much of the information and stories you see online about Parkinson's are focused on the negative and the challenge of the disease. The PPC community are highly motivated and positive individuals that do not accept victimhood. It is full of folks that accept the challenge, strive to overcome and live their lives to the fullest. They are resilient, positive and high achievers and my wife has developed strong contacts and true friends that encourage her and each other in this community. This is a world class organization and a blessing to those that have found it.








