DVD touts Parkinson’s Boot Camp

Olympic cyclist Davis Phinney has a new, free, exercise DVD for people with Parkinson’s disease.

Boulderite Gary Sobol and his Parkinson’s Boot Camp are featured on the national video. Sobol has Parkinson’s, as does Phinney.

With the exercises, the former marathoner Sobol said he is back to hiking. He said he has seen firsthand how others with Parkinson’s improve when doing his exercises. The disease’s most common symptoms are movement related; it’s a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that shows up most commonly in people age 50 and older.

These days, as many as 75 folks show up at the Boulder…