Walking Cane Support to 100 Parkinson Patients

Parkinson’s disease is a neurological progressive disease. Parkinson patients suffering by a lot of problems, out of which movement problem is one and the most. To prevent the severity of Parkinson patients need to walk and exercise. In order to move Parkinson patients should supported by several things among which walking stick the most important.

Our member patients, however, uses improper walking stick that cannot help much. Because they cannot afford to buy using  any stick , if short patients forced to bend, if it is long the patient cannot get a strength to walk. Realizing the importance of aid from a walking stick, .Parkinson patient support organization - Ethiopia  provided them with a proper walking cane. Provision of walking cane is not only helping patients to walk but also protecting the patient  from falling down when walking in slippery ground.

Using a proper walking cane benefits not only for Parkinson patients but also to Caregivers. Before getting the proper walking sick for any movement the help of care givers was needed. After getting our  new walking cane patients  can manage to walk by themselves in and around    their home

Using proper walking cane helped Parkinson patients developed self confidence.  Care givers also get extra time to look after themselves thus  the  using proper walking cane  contributed to the improvement of quality of life. As one of the beneficiary Miss Letebirehan said,

“Previously I can’t move alone one place to another always ask my daughters for help when I try to go somewhere but if my daughters are not exist around me it’s very difficult for me as we know walking improved disease symptom but without cane difficult to move place to place. Now after getting this support I start to walk by alone at least at my household compound this help me to improve disease symptom”