This is a foundation course designed to provide a platform from which exercise professionals can begin to work with low-risk Parkinson’s people.
The course includes a free introductory module, Neuroanatomy 101, that gives students a basic insight into brain anatomy.
Prerequisite
- CIMSPA: Level 3
Aims and objectives:
The aims of the course are to upskill exercise professionals in the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s, to explain both the motor and non-motor symptoms and the primary medications used to treat Parkinson’s. We outline the role of neuroplasticity and neuroplastic training principles. The theoretical knowledge is supported by practical modules that are designed to give exercise professionals a grounding in how to work with Parkinson’s clients.
- To explain the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s
- To explain the role of neuroplasticity and how to use it with Parkinson’s
- To familiarise trainers with the medications used to treat Parkinson’s and their side effects
- To demonstrate how to work effectively with Parkinson's people
Author Bio
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Tim Webster
Tim Webster’s community work includes mentoring the homeless in London with the Big Issue, chairing Big Brothers Big Sisters of Christchurch, helping small roadside businesses in Uganda with his microfinance company Capital for Life, and most recently founding a charitable trust in New Zealand called Exercise as Medicine NZ, which launched in 2018. Through this organisation, Tim and his wife Kris Tynan deliver targeted exercise and rehabilitation programmes to people with long-term health conditions like Parkinson’s, MS, stroke, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, and arthritis. With over 40 years’ experience in health and fitness, Tim is also a Justice of the Peace in New Zealand and even holds a UK private pilot’s licence.