TABLE TENNIS WITH PARKINSON’S
World Championship of Table Tennis for People with Parkinson’s in Berlin
with 130 participants from 21 countries.
Table tennis trains the eye-hand-connection
and can help to delay the progress of the disease.
Table tennis trains the eye-hand-connection
and can help to delay the progress of the disease.
Published in Capital 12/2021
Parkinson´s is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that, once erupted, progresses relentlessly: with the tremor, with movement and speech difficulties as the most visible symptoms. Parkinson's is not fatal, but neither is it curable.
„It doesn’t kill you, but bit by bit it takes away all joy“
The problem with Parkinson's: There are drugs that can help - but they only fight the symptoms temporarily, not the disease itself - and the price is high. Parkinson´s - just like Alzheimer’s - might be curable if only enough money would be invested in research.
But generally people who suffer from Parkinson´s are old and less visible and active in public.
But generally people who suffer from Parkinson´s are old and less visible and active in public.
