Author Kristine Meldrum
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2024 Best Independent Book Award
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"Health & Fitness Book"
2025 Discovery
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"Best First Book"
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2024 National
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"Fitness"
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2024 National
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"Health"
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INTRODUCING THE NEW How to Build a PD Exercise Cocktail Plan, A Professional’s Companion Guidebook to Parkinson's: How to Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise, It's almost here! Counting down for its release.
Build Parkinson’s exercise programs that actually work.
This step-by-step professional guidebook by award-winning author Kristine Meldrum, with 10 NCCA-PD Certifications/Certificates, gives exercise professionals a clear, research-driven system for designing targeted exercise plans for people living with Parkinson’s disease (PWPD). It also serves as a practical tool PWPD can share with therapists and trainers to help build personalized Exercise Cocktail Plans.
Unlike generic “just exercise” approaches, this guide focuses on Parkinson’s-specific, evidence-based exercise protocols—the methods shown in research to reduce symptoms and support slower functional decline when properly applied.
Inside you’ll find:
• A structured, start-to-finish program design framework
• Parkinson’s-specific exercise protocols and progressions
• Real YOPD and LOPD client plan examples
• 25+ ready-to-use workouts
• Cycling, treadmill, boxing, aerobic, circuit, strength, flexibility, and stretching formats
• Clear coaching cues and implementation guidance
Designed for real-world application, this guide translates Parkinson’s exercise science into practical programming you can use immediately.
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.
Available in English at Amazon US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy and the Netherlands
"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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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).
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
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"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."
- Ray Dorsey, MD, 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
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.
