North Aurora resident Mary White explains the benefits of a boxing-inspired fitness routine to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease at the Kiwanis Club of Aurora Tuesday at the Prisco Center in Aurora. For three years she has worked out with the Rock Steady Boxing program at Jesse “The Law” Boxing Club in Aurora. Parkinson’s disease is an incurable progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects the ability to walk, talk, balance, and move. She gives credit of her improvement to the non-contact boxing-inspired fitness and her doctors for telling her to get more active after her diagnosis of the disease. Jesse “The Law” Boxing Club is a non-profit organization, with the support of the Fox Valley Park District, which provides underprivileged youth and residents of Aurora a place to participate in no-cost physical fitness while learning the sport of boxing.
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