(16 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 3 June 2025
1. Parkinson’s patient Nilma Freitas practicing capoeira while instructor Rosi Peixoto plays tambourine
2. Wide of Peixoto showing her pupils a martial art type movement with a stick
3. Mid of Freitas practicing movement with a stick
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4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Nilma Freitas, Parkinson’s patient:
"Since I began training capoeira, I feel like a different person. I feel safe while walking and looking at others, giving movement to my body and making my life worthwhile."
5. Mid of Freitas practicing movements
6. Wide of Peixoto showing movements in front of her pupils
7. Peixoto instructing the class and speaking, UPSOUND (Portuguese) Rosi Peixoto, capoeira instructor and physical therapist: "The motor coordination improves as well as the equilibrium when we transfer weight from one leg to another."
8. Closeup of "berimbau" instrument playing a slow rhythm
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 6 June 2025
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9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Dr. Eduardo Nascimento, neurologist:
"The sequence of the rhythm makes the person predict the motion which probably activates different motor pathways in the brain other than the one which has been compromised."
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 3 June 2025
10. Overhead of group in a circle performing capoeira
11. Mid of Parkinson’s patient Ronaldo Freitas performing capoeira in circle with Peixoto
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 8 June 2025
12. Mid of Freitas beating drum next to Peixoto hitting tambourine
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13. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Ronaldo Freitas, patient:
"After I started doing capoeira I felt much better. Before, I could hardly get up from my bed. I tried but couldn’t. Nowadays I can get up on my own."
14. Peixoto hits tambourine next to Parkinson’s patient Willy Haas while he practices movements
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15. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Willy Haas, patient:
"I’ve been very well received by coordinator Rosi and have been here for the last two months and I feel very very good. This is a very non-traditional way to treat this disease."
16. Pan of Willy with others practicing movements while Peixoto hits tambourine
STORYLINE:
In this dance studio in Rio de Janeiro, a physiotherapist is giving her patients with Parkinson’s disease capoeira lessons.
They say it’s making a real difference to their lives.
All the participants have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a neurodegenerative disease that afflicts around 200 thousand people in Brazil.
The main symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are usually an involuntary shaking, or tremors of particular parts of the body, stiff, inflexible muscles, and slow movement.
Patients can also experience problems with balance, anxiety, and depression.
Twice a week, this group of capoeira players meets at the Lapa neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.
Their instructor is Rosi Peixoto, who’s been practicing capoeira for 17 years.
In 2017, she decided to try capoeira on some of her Parkinson’s patients.
The group has been going steady ever since and participants report improvements in their movement.
Eighty-year-old Nilma Teles Freitas used to suffer from a lack of balance, with frequent falls and consequent limb fractures. She claims capoeira has helped her greatly.
Capoeira is a traditional Brazilian mixture of dance, music and martial art.
It developed locally in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador.
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