A75-year-old Belgian woman with Parkinson’s is putting the disease on the ropes by practicing non-contact boxing in southern Antalya province along the Turkish Mediterranean coast. Donning shiny gloves and purple sneakers, Nancy van der Straeten hops into the boxing ring and starts punching in a fight against severe symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease. Six years after her diagnosis, van der Straeten discovered the benefits of boxing by chance while researching the disease. Ever since she has been perfecting her punching by going to a gym three times a week.

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