Parkinson's Recovery Project Publications

Publications of the Parkinson's Recovery Project

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These two publications are available for free. This page has a description of the two books. At the bottom of this page are instructions for getting the books and links to the pages from which you can download the books. Clicking on the underlined book titles will also link you to the bottom of the page, where you will find the instructions for getting the books.

Recovery From Parkinson's: A Practitioner's Handbook

by Janice Walton-Hadlock. 6th edition, 2005

This book includes theory, techniques, and instruction on forming individualized treatment plans for treating Parkinson's disease using methods of Asian medicine. This latest edition of this book includes new case studies from the ongoing research project of the Parkinson's Recovery Project and more information about the Parkinson's personality.
The book explains how to determine whether or not acupuncture, herbs, and other treatment modalities of Oriental medicine might be effective for the very individualized presentations of Parkinson's disease.
The book also includes extremely detailed descriptions of the signs, symptoms, and emotional/mental characteristics of Parkinson's disease. This information can be helpful in forming or confirming an accurate diagnosis for idiopathic Parkinson's; the syndrome is frequently misdiagnosed, and autopsy brain scans show that nearly 30% of the people who are told that they might have Parkinson's actually have nothing of the sort.
Note: this 6th edition, an updated and more detailed version of the 5th edition that was published in 2000, is not completely finished yet, and therefore it is not yet available in hard copy. The finished chapters are, as yet, only available via the free download method on this website's Publications page.
The finished chapters have been posted on the Publications page of this website, and the final chapters will each be posted as soon they are finished. The finished book will hopefully be available by late fall 2005. At that time, it will also be made available in hard copy.
About the 6th edition
For those of you who have already read the old (5th) edition, you may not wish to download all of the new edition. However, most of the new material has been interspersed with the original material. Therefore, if you want to read all the new material, you will need to download most of the new chapters. If you want to download as little as possible, be aware that Chapter One is almost unchanged from the old edition. Chapter Two is only half new material. Chapter Eleven is old material, but it has been edited and is now better written than before. The rest of the material is a mixture of old and new. Chapters Four and Five are completely new material, as is Chapter Eight.
For those who remember the old "download the whole book at once" format, you may note that the new book will no longer be broken down into a Practitioner's section and a Patient's section; that break was done to make it easier to download the material. Now we have changed to a much easier and faster download format: one- and two-chapter downloads.
The 5th edition of Recovery From Parkinson's is no longer available, either as a download or as a hardcopy. The new edition will be available as a hard copy as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing your feedback on this new material. Send your thoughts to pdteam@cruzio.com.
Please note that this material is placed in public view in the hope there is benefit from its use, but there are no warranties stated or implied for the accuracy or efficacy of the contents. These works are copyrighted; please observe the usage notices within each book.

Medications of Parkinson's Disease

or
Once Upon A Pill:
Patient Experiences With Dopamine-enhancing Drugs and Supplements

by Janice Walton-Hadlock. 2003

This book is an in-depth look at Parkinson's disease medications and the brain chemistry of Parkinson's. Even so, many people who are not using antiparkinson's medications have found this book very helpful in understanding the chemistry of Parkinson's disease and how ongoing western medicine brain research supports Asian medical theory.
Parkinson's patients using L-dopa, dopamine agonists, MAO inhibitors and other alternative dopamine-enhancing drugs and supplements were closely studied as they participated in a four-year research project sponsored by the non-profit Parkinson's Recovery Project. The unexpected findings of this project have led to an entirely new hypothesis of how these poorly-understood drugs actually work. Unlike the dominant paradigm's understanding of these drugs, which holds that these drugs and their traumatic side effects are somewhat unpredictable, our new hypotheses provide a way of unraveling the "unpredictable" nature of these drugs. This new understanding has enabled us to make accurate predictions about how dosings and rate of dose changes effect people with Parkinson's. Our patients were able to discover safe methods for slowly increasing and decreasing drug doses to control the benefits and adverse effects of the medications.
This book also provides case studies that demonstrate the life-threatening dangers that arose when people recovered from Parkinson's disease while still under the influence of antiparkinson's drugs. These tragedies led to the Parkinson's Recovery Project's conclusion that people who have ever used antiparkinson's medications for more than three weeks are not suitable subjects for recovery from Parkinson's. Even so, people who are currently using antiparkinson's medication and are, therefore, not good candidates for our program, may learn in this book the methods of dosing that might help them use their medications with better results, including fewer adverse side effects and a profound slowing down of the problem of ever-increasing drug-dependence.
This book is over 600 pages long; therefore, we have broken it into small units for ease of downloading. Please note: as a condition of downloading this book, we require that you download the Cover pages section that contains the disclaimer which is a critical part of the book and which must be included in any printing of this book. Anyone who avails himself of this free offering must comply with this requirement.
This book is offered for free downloading and printing for individual use only. This material is copyright and all rights are reserved. Please observe the copyright warning on page two of the book.

How to Get the Publications

Free publications: The two books are both presently available for free using Adobe Acrobat format (also known as Portable Document Format, or PDF). Printed copies of Medications of Parkinson's are also available for sale (see below, "To purchase…"). However, printed copies of the new, unfinished 6th edition of Recovery from Parkinson's is not available at this time; only the free, PDF format is currently available for the latter book.