Re: Werre...not a lot of movement in rib cage with respiration..an

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Pat,

Speech exercises where you practice taking a deep breath before starting a

sentance (or in the middle of a long sentance) would be helpful in getting more

oxygen into the blood. This does sound like pneumonia also, has he been checked

for pneumonia?

The act of sitting and standing also causes the chest muscles to contract and

expand. If he can no longer stand, help him sit and lay down in bed as that

will also exercise the same muscles. If he can sit on the side of the bed,

raising the arms as far as possible above the head, then back to his side will

help (repeat at least ten times - does not have to be rapid).

There are forms of OPCA which are hereditary, have they been checked for that?

Here are sites with info on exercises:

http://www.cnsonline.org/www/archive/parkins/park-03.txt

http://www.ptjournal.org/pt_journal/PTJournal/May1999/May99/v79n5p488.cfm

Take care, Bill Werre

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> Date: 2002/07/20 Sat PM 08:59:41 CDT

> To: shydrager

> Subject: Werre...not a lot of movement in rib cage with

respiration..and manganes

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> Hi Bill. Sorry to be so long in replying. My Mom is sick as well so

> I'm more or less running between the 2 houses and stopping once in a

> while to pick up e-mail etc.

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> I'm not having a lot of luck with 's doctors so I wonder where I

> could find information on what sort of exercises he could do to help

> his chest muscles. Would this cause him to have a shortage of oxygen

> and if so, could it be contibuting to his confusion at all?

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> was a welder for many years and I'm not sure if the steel he

> welded had manganese in it or not. I just ran across some

> information on a disease called manganism and it had a lot of the

> same symptoms as MSA.

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> Bill, I was also wondering where to find information on the stages of

> MSA or is there any information out there to sort of act as a guide

> to help you know where you are with this demon disease?

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> The supreme irony around here this week is, our eldest grandson has

> just been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome...tics caused by either an

> excess of dopamine or an abnormal reaction to dopamine. His Papa

> could use some of that extra dopamine if only his body could make use

> of it.

>

> Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks

> Pat from NS

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