A new study in the School of Nursing on the effects of yoga on Parkinson’s disease patients has a School of Kinesiology connection.

The study is intended to discover whether yoga could be an effective complementary option to medications that are often prescribed for Parkinson’s disease, and to determine if yoga may help to reduce motor complications and stress levels associated with Parkinson’s disease. The School’s Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSCL), directed by Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., will perform the necessary movement assessment on all participants before the study begins, at six weeks, and after it’s completed. Participants will be tested for range of motion during gait and postural stability (balance) when standing and walking.