{"id":52893,"date":"2018-10-08T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=52893"},"modified":"2018-10-08T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T18:13:10","slug":"parkinsons-boxing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/parkinsons-boxing-video\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU professor using boxing to help Parkinson&#8217;s patients slow degenerative disease (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can boxing help slow the progression of Parkinson&#8217;s disease?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linda Marie Denney<\/strong>, an assistant professor of physical therapy at Northern Arizona University, is studying the effects of boxing on people in the early stages of Parkinson&#8217;s disease, specifically as it relates to sleep patterns and other pre-motor symptoms. Early results show the physical activity is having a positive effect in helping people retain control over their mobility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I figured it was either going to kill me or I was going to get what I call Jane Fonda arms,&#8221; said Suzie Nichols, a Parkinson&#8217;s patient who is part of the research. &#8220;So I&#8217;m going for the Jane Fonda arms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Denney&#8217;s research in this video from NAU-TV.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Big Chance\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5ioyaKAmDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/parkinsons-boxing-video\/\">Can boxing help slow the progression of Parkinson&#8217;s disease? Linda Marie Denney, an assistant professor of physical therapy at Northern Arizona University, is studying the effects of boxing on people in the early stages of Parkinson&#8217;s disease, specifically as it relates to sleep patterns and other pre-motor symptoms. Early results show the physical activity is&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}