On an early morning jog, keen runner Katy O’Malley felt a sudden, nagging pain around her left big toe. She ignored it, hoping it was the sort of minor twinge often picked up while exercising.
‘It started to affect my big toe and the two toes next to it – but I just hoped it would sort itself out,’ says Katy.
But fast-forward some 20 months later – and Katy was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease: her foot discomfort had been an early sign of it. She was just 42.
Around 166,000 people in the UK live with Parkinson’s, a progressive disease where a
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