Dad was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in December 2021. Mom and I had known for a long time that something was wrong. Dad blah blah blah and people in town asked us if he had had a stroke.
“Owen moves with the seasons, not with the weather. I am not sure his life always worked at this pace, but the Owen I know is slow and relaxed and cannot be rushed.
Mark Browning
Rock Steady Boxing for Parkinson’s
“Rock Steady Boxing, the first boxing program of its kind in the country, was founded in 2006 by former Marion County (Indiana) Prosecutor, Scott C. Newman, who is living with Parkinson’s. Rock Steady Boxing initially began through the friendship of two men, Scott Newman and Vince Perez, after Scott had been diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s at the age of 40. Refusing to let his friend go down without a fight, Vince turned to his experience as a Golden Gloves boxer to design a program that attacks Parkinson’s at its vulnerable neurological points. His intuitive insight is now proven to have merit through an increasing body of medical research. Realizing that their experience might be replicated for others, Scott and Vince founded Rock Steady Boxing as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. As word of this unique program spread and the demand for the classes increased, Rock Steady Boxing created classes to meet the fitness levels at all stages of Parkinson’s – from the newly diagnosed to those who had been living with it for decades plus.” Rocksteadyboxing.org
“If you don’t like this speed, my other one is really going to piss you off….”
Owen James
Mark Browning story about hiking
