Pro Football Hall of Famer and Southern University coach Marshall Faulk announced he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, saying medication has limited his symptoms to hand rigidity and that he hopes going public will help others.
Pro Football Hall of Famer and Southern University coach Marshall Faulk announced he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, saying medication has limited his symptoms to hand rigidity and that he hopes going public will help others.
Parkinson’s is the one diagnosis where the number that matters is brutal: roughly 90,000 new US cases a year, and the disease is the fastest-growing neurological condition on the planet. Faulk gets lucky with meds and a few stiff fingers. Plenty of people don’t get that deal, and they’re the ones nobody writes headlines about.