Team Dopamin Podcast: Table tennis and Parkinson - the World Championship

Tony und May of the teamdopamin Germany-Podcast talking with Jens Greve on the upcoming Parkinson's Table Tennis World Championships in Berlin from 9th to 11th September 2021.

(Podcast in German language)

Table tennis is the best sport to slow down the progression of the disease

Wolfgang Pirker from Waldzell (Austria) is going to the World Table Tennis Championships for people with Parkinson's disease in Berlin.

All Austrian team members are now equipped with official national jerseys by the ÖTTV (Austrian Table Tennis Federation) .

(Text in German language)

When i am playing table tennis i don't feel like having parkinson at all. It feels so free.

Margie Alley won the 2019 ITTF Women’s World Table Tennis Championship in New York. See how she find her way to table tennis.

Watch this Video on bronx.news12.com.

Aiming for championship despite handicap

Maik Gühmann, 54 years old, got his parkinson-diagnosis 14 years ago. After he got implemented a Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), he started playing table tennis.
He is playing for the TTG Hamburg Nord, an association of three Sports Clubs. The Clubs supporting his ambitions to participate at the PWTTC 2021. There will be a social media video documentary, telling his story, his way to deal with parkinson and his sportive progress with the following goals: raising more attention to the parkinson disease, collecting money for the project itself and finally starting a rehabilitation group.

(Text in German language. Copyright and thanks to Duvenstedter Kreisel http://www.duvenstedter-kreisel.de/zeitschrift/15860/)

Diagnosis was the start into a new life

Norbert Hase is one of the six founding members of Ping Pong Parkinson Germany. This article in the German Newspaper jeversches-wochenblatt is telling his story: How he find the way to table tennis, co-founded Ping Pong Parkinson Germany and his dream to join the Germany Open 2021 in Nordhorn Germany as well as the Parkinson World Table Tennis Championship in Berlin. (Article in German language; many thanks to Jeversches-Wochenblatt.de.)

The latest study comes from Japan

The study found out that at both three months and six months, study participants experienced significant improvements in speech, handwriting, getting dressed, getting out of bed and walking. This is the latest study on the therapeutic effects of Ping Pong.

This book is a dream project of mine. Financially made possible by YUVEDO and the YUVEDO Foundation, we are in the final stages of a thorough review of everything there is to know about Ping Pong and Parkinson's and NDS in general. We will soon show a few pages written by our great neuroscientist Cornelia.

I'm grateful for these training sessions!

This is just a short snippet from my home, where I practice twice a week with my neighbor, a former Bavarian youth table tennis champion. Unfortunately, I injured my racket arm when I slipped on unrecognizable ice in the woods. No ping pong or any other sport for at least two months.

Very Little Great River Ride 2020

“Little Great Ride 2020” was a four-day bike tour of 340 kilometers along the Rhine. It was organized by The YUVEDO Foundation to support people who are affected by Parkinson's, and to raise funds for research.

What is going on inside the brain?

Various symptoms of Parkinson's are now also observed with some corona patients. Studies are investigating the connections - and could help both groups of patients. A scientific report in German.