How to get Unstuck from a Parkinson's Freezing Episode - The "5S" Method
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Do you feel like you have "lead feet" or a "lead bottom" when you're trying to walk or stand up from a chair? This common complaint, called "freezing" (or "motor block"), effects 1 in 3 people with Parkinson's Disease.
In this Power for Parkinson's Wellness Corner, physical therapist Sarah King will teach you how to use the "5 S" method to get unstuck from a Parkinson's DIsease freezing episode and on with your life.
For more great tips on how you can live a life full of energy and vitality, despite your diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease, check out Invigorate Physical Therapy and Wellness at www.InvigoratePT.com .
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Thanks for the 5 S tips. I'll try them next time I'm stuck. One thing I've found helpful to overcome middle of the night stumbling and shudder stepping, is to swing my arms. I don't understand how it works, but it does.
I m 4th year medical student.currently studying rehabilitation medicine... thanks for video
The last one is impractical, many people with pd don’t have the strength or balance to raise a knee or shoot up from a chair. It’s near impossible.
Thanks for posting this 😀 Was looking for some help with my Dad's freezing epsiodes that have become stronger and more frequent in recent weeks. Both of us liked the clear 5S ideas you mentioned and we'll give them a go! Thanks again for your work from a grateful family in the UK 🌍💪🏼 #UniteForParkinsons
I’m new to Parkinson and like your advice and techniques very much
Sarah King,
I was first diagnosed 10 years ago, so I have had a while to try different things. At one time or another I have had success with the steps that make up the 5S method. Something else that often works when I am standing and find it difficult to take a step is taking a cross-over step. I should mention that I also walk with a cane after my hip replacement.
So in the cross-over step I stand up straight, shift most of my weight to my left foot while balancing with a cane. I raise my right foot from my heel to the ball of my foot so that only the toes are touching the floor. Then I slide my right foot turning it out from its normal orientation to a place just in front of my left foot. Then I re-balance on both feet and do the crossover again. I find this method to be very handy first thing in the morning.
Jim Erickson k
Great ideas. I'd pretty much found most this out on my own, amazing how these steps are so helpful. Especially the straightening up one's posture and the big step. Also i have a dedicated foot (driver;-)) to put forward in case of potential forward freeze/fall. In my case it's my left foot, but have trained (given permission) for the right foot to act as a immediate safety should the left stall. Having just learned that an Australian team found counting/talking and walking are all processed by the pre-frontal cortex, I'm practicing communicated directly with for smooth walking (no talking) but count helps while off-time any C/L. No DBS. Visualize confidence which approaching obstacles. Side stepping through narrow areas, and making radius walking turns, not 90 degrees. I like your style. I'll be back.
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Santa Cruz, Ca.
I found most of those methods effective however a tip a PT person gave me a while ago is extremely helpful to me hopefully it will be to others ...that is to take a long and low stride Instead of the upward step advised here . After I straighten up and stand straight and hold my stomach in and stuff. I can then take a long low step and this works very
well for me
Hi Sarah, as I mentioned in my email, I had learned some of these techniques with the Big exercises/PT. I think your ideas are all great though and one that helps and reminds me is to simply stop and relax. I also tend to start leaning forward trying to force my self to walk. When I do freeze I have noticed my leg muscles seem like they are going into spasms. This is where your advice to stop helps and I would ad relax or as you say "shake it off". To get my leg to lift I often envision a football quarterback saying "hike" and lifting his leg in and exaggerated way just before the ball is hiked.
thank you for the ideas some i know work. The Big exercise program is quite the same but still love to know there are folks like you that are looking for ways to make this horrible disease little bit more tolerable.
The 5 S method is a great help thanks again
I find that a few seconds of meditation to help me focus on the freezing often frees me up.
Thanks for this.
Yes these exercises will help me unfreeze
Hi am from India and I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s about three years ago. I freeze when I am walking .I have seen your video for the first time today only. One exercise. I find difficult is. The lasts one in which you want us to shoot out of the chair I am sitting. On .i hope this will improve once I do these exercises regularly . I will write back to you and tell you how how much help it has done for me..
great advice should be a big help
Yes. It work! Thanks so much!!
Hello and thank you for your useful tip /I use them and it is much better now. Many many thanks !
Thank you, very helpful 👍
It's wonderful and easy to learn
Thank you!
Very practical
It run! Thank you.
thank you so much! this definitely has worked for my mother. Bless you.
You help me getting from a seated position on my bed to standing position
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My problems is my both leg start to twitching or shaking on the spot , can’t move forward, usually end up falling. Never had anything like that before , it started last year, I had Parkinson’s since 2015, first three years wa# nothing, I took my Sinemet and go on about my daily workout, no falls , no freezing, the 4th yeas I start losing my balances and falling often, now every time I walk I am risking falling.It’s a everyday challenge.
Hi,
My husband has Parkinson since 2010. He is 56 years old had dbs surgery and on higher medication. He stuck on bed and can’t move his body. Sometime he goes to washroom and can’t come out. He can’t lift his hand nor move his feet. What should he do?
I will try and let you know....
My right leg gradually lost control and lost power after an operation to remove a cancer from my large intestine.
My sister has a severe from of a movement disorder (Fahr's disease) that causes her to freeze. Sometimes the freezing is in her speech. Do you have any tips for how to overcome freezing when she totally freezes, body, face and all?
Yes it doesvwhile I am walking.
Great advice, I have A considerable amount I’m freezing. And your technique works great. It really helps a lot,, thank you very much
Does this freezing only happen with Parkinson's Disease? I don't have PD, but have been in a position where I have been frozen. I have severe arthritis and was in the hospital for 8 weeks a year ago and seemed to have lost all of my muscle strength, so I have issues such as getting up from a chair or going up steps. I made up a name for the rocking I do to get up from a chair - I call it the "granny rock!" I like this video
Thank you for this. Terence
hi, what does it means in number 5, in sitting, Standing in one half motion?
I don't know exactly what happens to me, but it's some sort of freez ing. Yet, I have no time to think, my toes curl, I stop dead in my tracks and immediately fall to my knees. Needless to say, my knees are in a constant state of bruising. Help? Thank you.
great illustration, which there was more! ty
oops wish..
do you have a method for climbing stairs i find that i lean back as i go and have twice fallen back even after installing a second handrail the only way i can safely negociate the stairs is on all fours
Hey.
... I m from india..
I'm suffering from Parkinson's diease at the age of 17 ...
I was well after a few years of receiving treatment
But I have started having problems again…. My condition is very down splash… And now even my gate has started to freeze.
I started getting small steps and I could not stand in one place… plz help me
Didnt help getting up from chair-I am working on it
I have PARKINSON'S and freezing is the big problem I have. I am going to try the 5s method. I find the freezing episodes very embarrassing especially when it ends in a fall.
Great video. Thank you . I learnt something. I step over an imaginary curb to get unstuck.
This is simple yet very informative and helpful. I find that if I cross my feet when taking that first step helps. So I put my right foot up and over my left foot for my first step
thanks for the 5 steps,
👍very helpful
Hi will it works for ms legs?
Bonjour Sarah, Stop & Relax is the only one solution. I use this technique when i can...... Merci beaucoup.
So helpful for using in the clinic
5 s tips are very good
Thank you ! This can be so frustrating. I’m friends know I I raise my hand I need their hand.
Palm-to-palm works like a phone charger ! Once I’m charged I can stand, sit or walk normal. Your tips will sure help when I’m alone. Thanks again
Loved these ideas, Sarah! I am a PWR instructor/personal trainer working with PD clients. I have a client whose legs are strong, but he freezes sometimes when he tries to get up off the floor. A few of your "S's" will work, but do you have any specific suggestions for getting him off the floor? (Of course we use chairs on either side, and all the "normal" techniques.)
It really Works 👏
Thank you for the tips
what about freezing when writing?
Thanks Madam
it's OK good, but I have a doubt, how it's possible a Parkinson's disease patient can move his lims this much faster. .
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Tips helped, thank you.
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I have Parkinsonism and have had 1-2 second freezing of the gait episodes for the last few years. But in the last 3 weeks I have had 2 episodes lasting more like 10 seconds each time. Once just making a coffee and the whole body, inc feet, arms, hands, head just wouldn’t move, also had tears coming out of my eyes, maybe due to body going into shock and the 2nd time was just after finishing having a shower. I was stuck in shower cubicle for like 10 seconds and tears again. My wife was there to help me out os shower and into a chair. A few minutes later I went outside to walk and I was shuffled feet more than usual. So, my question is, the 2 x 10 second episodes weren’t in stressful situations, like you might expect walking thru a large crowd or being in a room full of people, etc. so if not stress related, making a coffee and having a relaxing shower, is it more like Parkinson’s Disease than Just Parkinsonism Symptoms? Thx Mark
Good!