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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: punaperson on March 28, 2019, 11:10:55 AM
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I wonder when doctors will start prescribing this so insurance will cover the ammo costs? What say you tillamook?
Professional shooter uses 'gun therapy' to lessen symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
[He became a pro AFTER being diagnosed...]
https://www.foxnews.com/health/professional-shooter-uses-gun-therapy-to-mitigate-the-tremors-from-parkinsons-disease
David Smith had long been a competitive shooter, and he wasn’t going to allow a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease to end his hobby.
The 46-year-old, now considered by Guns.com a “powerhouse on the competitive circuit,” and who just scored a spot at the 2019 World Rifle Shoot in Sweden, was first diagnosed with the crippling nervous system disorder eight years ago.
But rather than shrinking away, Smith confronted Parkinson’s head-on and developed what he calls “gun therapy” as a means to control the tremors that come with the illness.
And when he lifts his firearm to the ready, those debilitating shakes disperse. In the gun world, he is the “Parkinson’s Shooter.”
“The disease had taken away everything from me in terms of my ability to eat and drink or do anything without help. Shooting was all I had left, it was all I could do,” Smith told Fox News Thursday. “It made me feel normal.”
“I now shoot 5000 to 6000 rounds a day, treating it as an eight-hour workday,” he explained.