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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Elonore Hughes

Parkinson's patients in Brazil turn to a movement practice known as capoeira to ease symptoms

Brazil Capoeira - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time.

That changed after she began attending a capoeira class in downtown Rio de Janeiro especially designed for people with the neurodegenerative illness.

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