Falls
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
There are few great anxiety inducers for Parkies than the prospect of having a fall. Squeezed into the Notting Hill pub – having dodged bustling waiters, stray chair legs and a labyrinthine tangle of cables – the Movers & Shakers are joined by two experts, Laura Douglas from Neuro Heroes and the University of Exeter's Dr Will Young, to discuss the reality of falls. Are people with Parkinson's at greater risk? And, if so, what can we do to a) prevent falls, and b) mitigate the seriousness? Navigating our way, ever so carefully, through this issue should shine a light on how to stay safe and help your loved ones.
A note for listeners: Will Young and his team are currently running a research project looking at the psychological impact of various potential symptoms of Parkinson's. The aim is to validate a new questionnaire (the Lo-Co-Motion) that could be used as part of training/therapies for managing symptoms and any associated anxiety. This in an online survey that takes about 30-50 minutes. Further information and the online survey can be found here.
Sponsored by Albion Chambers.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Pod-O. |
| 0:02.5 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:13.3 | The show is generously sponsored by Albion Chambers Bristol, a preeminent set of barristers, |
| 0:18.6 | specialising in providing the highest quality legal advice and representation in criminal, family, inquest and regulatory law. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to Movers and Shakers, the podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:33.0 | We are in the pub for our usual laugh and a moan, and this week you can expect more moaning than ever |
| 0:37.8 | because our focus is on falling. So let's start by finding out who's here. I'm Paul Mayhew |
| 0:44.1 | Archer. Nicholas Mawston. Gillian Lacey Solomon. Mark Maudel. Rory Kethlyn Jones. Fantastic. And the |
| 0:50.4 | reason we're talking about falling or having a fall is because I experienced my first Parkinson's plummet a few weeks ago. And I'll talk about that later. But what about the rest of you? Have you had falls? No. Never had a fall. No. It confirms my belief. He hasn't really got Parkinson's. No, I have. It's not one of my, not been a symptom I've had to endure. No, I'm quite lucky. I haven't had a touchwood and I am touching wood for quite a while, about a year. You had one a year ago? Yes, but it was at a festival in the end of the road festival and intent, and I've had a bit to drink. The drink had been taken. So it wasn't really a Parkinson's having a fall. Well, I probably didn't help too much, but I bounced back. |
| 1:28.4 | What about you, Gillian? |
| 1:29.9 | Well, I've had two falls. |
| 1:31.7 | One was slightly silly in that I got on a stool and decided to rearrange what was on a very, very high shelf and couldn't quite reach it. |
| 1:40.1 | And then I'm plummeting off the stool and got in big trouble. That was one. The other one was a skiing fall where I wasn't wearing a helmet. Now you're showing off for the sake. I had a pick of those. I was very scared because it opened my head up and inside my head. I'd remember a electrodes that was a terribly clever |
| 2:01.7 | really. |
| 2:01.8 | You didn't wind your head up? |
| 2:03.1 | Well, just a little bit. |
| 2:03.9 | I had five stitches. |
| 2:04.6 | Just a little bit. |
| 2:06.1 | That was sort of a Parkinson's fault |
| 2:07.6 | insofar as apparently |
| 2:09.2 | it was the drugs |
| 2:10.5 | that made me fearless |
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