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    People with Parkinson's Are Dancing

    Coconut Telegraph

    SRQ DAILY

    SATURDAY SEP 14, 2019 |

    The Sarasota Ballet and Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson's are partnering to provide “Dancing Through Parkinson's", a dance-movement program for people with Parkinson’s and their care partners. Parkinson’s is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease with no known cure. According to Robyn Faucy-Washington, Chief Executive Officer of the Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson's, “Numerous studies show that dance helps improve mobility, balance, and gait by addressing the motor symptoms of PD which include resting tremors, slowness of movement, and difficulties with balance as well as non-motor symptoms such as anxiety, pain, and sleep disorders”.

    Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson's

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    A Magical Evening | SRQ Magazine's Holiday Soiree at Waterworks, December 9

    Photos from the SRQ Magazine Holiday Soiree at Waterworks, December 9

    Jan 4, 2020

    The Sexiest Show in Ballet

    The Sarasota Ballet perform, for the first time, George Balanchine’s evocative and exotic Bugaku April 27-28. This remarkable ballet was a tribute by Balanchine to the refined elegance of Japanese music and dance, and during its world premiere renowned dance critic Anna Kissel

    Apr 11, 2018

    Families First Institute Offers Free, Public Courses to Strengthen Families

    Children First, Sarasota County’s exclusive provider of Head Start and Early Head Start programs serves more than 700 of the county’s most vulnerable children and their families each year, providing high-quality education, care, nutrition and family support services. Children First&rs

    Apr 4, 2018

    Give Gratitude, Grateful Patient Program

    If you have been a patient at Sarasota Memorial, perhaps you can look back to when the care you received exceeded your expectations. Maybe it was kind words from a doctor or nurse, the patience of a technologist who took the time to explain a procedure, or a volunteer, housekeeper or food service

    Jan 12, 2018