Author Kristine Meldrum
With Tayo, 2.5-year-oldBernese Mountain Dog
Photo by Laraine Davis
2024 Best Independent Book Award
Winner
"Health & Fitness Book"
2025 Discovery
Independent Book Award
Winner
"Best First Book"
Non-Fiction
2024 National
Independent Excellence Award
Winner
"Fitness"
Category
2024 National
Independent Excellence Award
Finalist
"Health"
Category
The 2025 Eric Hoffer Winner
"Health Category"
The 2025 Eric Hoffer International
Grand Prize
Short List Award
The 2025 Eric Hoffer International
First Horizon Award
Winning Debut Author
Less than 5% of the nominees become Grand Prize Award Finalists. This
"short list" of finalists is an honored distinction of its own.
“Exercise may be the most powerful disease-modifying therapy available for Parkinson’s disease.”
— Ray Dorsey, MD, MBA
“Your program is translation at its best.”
— Jay Alberts, PhD
Recommended by leading neurologists, including Michael S. Okun, MD.
Build Parkinson’s Exercise Plans That Actually Work
This professional guidebook provides a clear, research-driven system for designing targeted exercise plans for people with Parkinson’s disease (PWPD).
Unlike generic approaches, it focuses on Parkinson’s-specific protocols shown to reduce symptoms and support slower functional decline.
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"Every person with Parkinson's disease
or parkinsonism should read this book."
Bastiaan R. Bloem, MD, PhD, FRCPE, FEAN
International Parkinson's Expert
Co-Author, Ending Parkinson's Disease
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Available in English at Amazon US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy and the Netherlands
Upon its first release in 2013, Parkinson's How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise was the #1 New Release in Parkinson's Disease and has been the #1 Best Seller multiple times, and remained on the top 10 Best Seller list in Parkinson's Disease
"Parkinson's: How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise is a great book. One filled with inspirational stories and resources to help in your fight with Parkinson's Disease."
Bastiaan R. Bloem, MD, PhD, FRCPE, FEAN
Book Foreword
by Bastiaan R. Bloem, MD, PhD, FRCPE, FEAN
Professor of Movement Disorder Neurology;
Director, Radboud Centre of Expertise for Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders
The Netherlands
This new book, Parkinson’s: How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise, is long overdue. Written by recognized experts in the field, this highly readable book comprehensively summarizes the state-of-the-art evidence in the field of exercise and Parkinson’s Disease (PD).
The book is richly filled with personal stories, both of individuals living with Parkinson’s and the scientists who have helped to build the evidence to support the merits of exercise as a genuine therapy. Because, make no mistake, as this book nicely summarizes, there is now a rigorous scientific underpinning to demonstrate that exercise helps to alleviate the symptoms of PD, just as you would expect from a drug that corrects the dopamine deficiency in the brain.
Parkinson's: How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise
Do you have Parkinson's Disease? Are you looking for ways to reduce your symptoms? Then Parkinson's: How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise is the book for you! It explains in detail the benefits of specific types of exercise for those with Parkinson's Disease (PD).
- Ray Dorsey, MD,
New York Times Best Selling Author
Professor of Neurology, University of Rochester
Co-Author, The Parkinson's Plan,
Co-Author, Ending Parkinson’s Disease
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"The book Parkinson's: How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise is a must-read. It contains easy-to-understand, actionable information that will delight you and impact your life. Get ready to prepare your PD Exercise Cocktail Plan™ and drink it each day for better living."
Michael S. Okun, MD, Director
New York Times Best Selling Author
Fixel Institute for
Neurological Diseases,
University of Floridaon’s Disease
Co-Author, The Parkinson's Plan
Author, Living With Parkinson's Disease
& Co-Author, Ending Parkinson’s Disease
Book Review
Parkinson’s: How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise By Kristine Meldrum Posted by IR Staff|January 5, 2024
Parkinson’s: How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise by Kristine Meldrum is part science, part physical therapy/exercise, and part motivational. A pioneer in the establishment of neuro-wellness classes, Meldrum not only promotes the four different types of exercises – cycling, treadmill, progressive strength training, and ‘rock steady boxing’ (a trademark) – she also explains the whys and how exercise stimulates the brain’s neuroplasticity. Kudos and narratives from research physicians (the Cleveland Clinic, Northwestern University, and abroad), plus real-life case histories, solidify the absolute importance of this book for Parkinson’s Disease patients and their caregivers.
