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One of the many signs of Parkinson's disease is impaired handwriting. practicing writing by hand can help, but patients feel lack of motivation to do so, usually giving up after a few days.
to get patients motivated to keep practicing during the pandemic, we get them to write and transcribe gratitude messages to front line workers, every day.
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The cards had special covers supporting our heroes.
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