SPECIALIZED TRAINING
AUTISM AND PARKINSON COMMUNITY
Strengthening our community with love, compassion, and inclusion to help children, adolescents and adults navigate the day-to-day difficulties associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Parkinson’s Disease through exercise and sport.
We design and personalized exercise that provides benefits beyond the physical fitness. Exercise is a key block to building a foundation to improve focus, decreasing stress and anxiety and enhancing social skills and language development.
Contact Edna today at:
edna@vivehealthysport.com or call: 630.888.5830
Vive Healthy offers personal training coaching and fitness classes in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Join us for running groups, boxing classes, strength training, marathon training, and HIIT programs. We are a Minority Small Business - owner Edna Jackeline Vazquez Ultramarathoner.
Parkinson's disease (PD)
A neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominately the dopamine-producing (“dopaminergic”) neurons in a specific area of the brain called substantia nigra.
What is Parkinson's? Better understand the disease that affects 10 million people worldwide, along with its symptoms, causes and treatments.
“I came to Edna at Vive Healthy about 2 1/2 years ago to see if she could help me with my coordination and mobility issues due to my Parkinson’s. All I can say is “Thank God I found her!”
She has helped me increase my flexibility, mobility, balance, endurance and strength throughout my whole body. She has specifically geared her one on one training classes with me to help me with my Parkinson’s. She slowly pushed me to my full potential and always with a positive attitude and a smile on her face.
She takes pride in helping you achieve your goals. She took the time to apply her expertise so she would help cater to my specific training needs due to my Parkinson’s.
She is simply the best at what she does. To this day I am still training with her and my neurologist can’t believe the progress I have made because of Edna’s training.
Thank you Edna!!!!! You are the best!!!”
Why Is Exercise for Autism Important?
Exercise is an evidence-based practice and rated by parents as the number one autism treatment. 1 in 44 individuals are diagnosed with autism, and their family members will leave no stone unturned to help them. Unfortunately, a multitude of therapies exists that cannot yet be backed by science. Exercise has been proven to work in a big way.
Exercise for those with autism doesn’t just increase fitness levels. It is an important part of learning and playing. Research shows that it is a gateway to increasing focus, reducing maladaptive behaviors, and improving social skills and language development.
“Our National Survey of Autism Treatment Effectiveness, based on over 700 autism families, found that exercise was the number 1 rated treatment overall, with a rating of 4.2/5, substantially higher than the 2nd highest rated treatment with a 3.8/5”
James B. Adams, PH.D. - Arizona State University
Physical activity also slows the disease process, decreases the pain associated with Parkinson`s disease, prolongs the independent mobility (gait, balance, strength) and improves sleep, mood, memory hence improving the overall quality of life.
There are study shows that exercise has the potential to help both motor (gait, balance, strength) and nonmotor (depression, apathy, fatigue, constipation) aspects of Parkinson’s disease as well as secondary complications of immobility (cardiovascular, osteoporosis).
Exercise produces many benefits including increased physical functioning motor performance, strength, endurance, improved gait and balance, cardiovascular fitness, and overall better quality of life It is great strides to make exercise a part of the standard treatment of PD such as biking, running, Tai Chi, yoga, Pilates, dance, weight training, boxing and more are included —all have positive effects on PD symptoms.
