Conference Day 2

Thursday we took a walk in the morning and saw one of the local shrines and then took the subway to the conference. I attended the end of the Tai Chi and then stayed for the Mighty Maestro class in the Wellness area while Ron attended the main sessions.. Today’s main sessions were focused on genetics. 

At lunch time we attended a session on Living Well with Parkinson’s: What’s Your Secret. I was very disappointed with this one because none of the speakers were on topic.  They discussed what should work in theory and what didn’t work.

In the afternoon, I attended a great session on Pain.  The big take away was that Pain is a Parkinson’s symptom and should be addressed by the Movement Disorder Specialist.  Ron attended a round table.

The second afternoon session I attended a session on Non-motor symptoms that are often overlooked: sexual disfunction, urinary dysfunction and orthostatic hypotension.  The first speaker was good and seemed to be a repeat of what Ron attended. The second speaker was a native Japanese speaker and she just read the English slides without an explanation. She would have been better to let someone else present and then just answer questions.  Ron went to a session on dietary supplements.  His take away was to watch not to take too much B6, make sure meds are taken at optimum times and try drinking lots of water to ease constipation .

We took the subway back to the hotel, walking by the Imperial Palace on the way back.  We ate dinner at an Irish Pub.