Combating Parkinson’s freezing of gait through intensive, personalized movement medicine
ANTI-FREEZE BOOTCAMP
Reclaim your steps and your confidence.
Freezing of gait, when your feet feel glued to the floor, can steal independence, increase fall risk, and limit joy in daily life. Anti-Freeze Bootcamp empowers you to take back control.
Intensive, 1:1 exercise designed to break the freezing cycle
This program gives you focused, one‑on‑one exercise coaching tailored to your abilities and goals. Every session targets the specific movement patterns that contribute to freezing, helping you retrain your brain through high‑repetition, high‑quality practice.
Safety harnesses allow you to move with confidence — pushing your intensity without the fear of falling — so you can finally get the volume of practice needed to break the cycle.
You’ll learn practical strategies to reduce freezing before it starts, along with the most effective cues and techniques to get “unstuck” when freezing happens. The goal: more freedom, smoother movement, and greater confidence in your everyday life.
Practicing safe, confident walking through high‑repetition stepping and target‑reaching — training her brain to stay moving and handle real‑world dual‑tasking without freezing.
Why Anti-Freeze Bootcamp Works
Freezing worsens with triggers like doorways, turns, crowds, multi-tasking or fatigue- often leading to fear, anxiety, less activity, weakness and more falls. General exercise or chair-based groups rarely provide enough specific, high-volume reps to rewire responses.
Anti-Freeze Bootcamp Stands Out Because:
Highly Specific: Obstacle courses customized to your unique freezing factors
Fitness focused. Freezing shows up more when you are tired, so improving your stamina reduces how often it appears.
Safe & Intensive: Harness (if needed) guided practice of real triggers for hundreds of reps without fall risk
Progressive & Challenging: Exercises evolve to keep driving neuroplastic changes. If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you!
Supplement Friendly- Pairs perfectly with existing PT or in between PT episodes of care; ideal for 2-4/week targeted sessions that traditional care often can’t deliver
Early, consistent care reduces freezing of gait impact and fall risk. Creating your brightest future starts today.
Led by Dr. Lindsey Hershberger, DPT- PWR! & LSVT BIG Certified Physical Therapist.
Life Changing Results
“Before this program, I felt stuck, like my feet had a mind of their own. Now, I feel connected again. It’s given me control back. ”
-Steve
“We tried several other clinics, with no success, before being referred to Lindsey. Her treatment for my husband is helping him improve his quality of life! Thank you Lindsey for all you do!”
-Janet
“I am catching myself now when I know I would have been on the floor before this program. I don’t fall nearly as much. It feels so good to get some confidence back.”
-Ellie
“I do not normally give 5 star reviews but Empower and Lindsey clearly deserve it . My Parkinson's freezing episodes really cramp my style, but the freeze bootcamp that I have been taking already have had measurable results in my daily living.”
- Bill
Pricing & Scheduling
Mobility Assessment $200
First Visit
Follow Ups
Eight Pack: $1,000 ($125/visit)
Fifteen Pack: $1,650 ($110/visit)
All visits are individually coached and last roughly one hour.
For best results, we recommend booking 2-3 visits per week and booking your follow‑ups up front to ensure consistency.
Because of the complexity of freezing of gait, at least 2 rounds of 15 are often needed.
Limited time, $250-$500 scholarships available toward a 15-visit package. First come, first served until grant funds are exhausted. Inquire when signing up!
Scholarships Available!
Payment: Anti-Freeze Bootcamp is not covered by insurance. Payment for packages occurs up front at your first follow up visit. We accept cash, check, credit card, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, and gift cards.
FAQs:
The Process
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No. Simply join our waitlist to get started.
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Absolutely! In our experience, people with freezing of gait require more frequent, targeted exercise than people without freezing of gait.
We recommends anti-freeze exercise at least 2-4 days per week to achieve the repetitions needed for positive change. If scheduling or insurance limitations are preventing you from being seen consistently at your Physical Therapy, Anti-Freeze Bootcamp can maximize your impact by serving as a powerful supplement.
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Our waitlist varies from days to months and is impacted by the needs of our current clients and your scheduling flexibility.
Current clients have priority scheduling and are offered the opportunity to renew halfway through their scheduled programs.
Once a client chooses not to renew their program, we contact the next person on the wait list. We promise, these programs are worth the wait!
When you are next, we will reach out to you by both text and email with options to schedule your first appointment.
If we do not hear back from you within one week, we move on to the next person on the wait list.
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When you are next in line, we will reach out to you by both text and email with a few available dates/times for your first visit.
Once you let us know which appointment time works best for you, we’ll call you to get scheduled and answer any questions.
If we do not hear back from you within one week, we move on to the next person on the wait list.
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Improving freezing of gait requires LOTS OF CONSISTENT, TARGETED, PRACTICE, so we recommend scheduling at least two-four days per week. You’ll generally start more frequent and taper as you improve.
Because of the complexity of freezing of gait, Anti-Freeze Bootcamp clients often require at least two rounds of 15 visits for best results.
Once you have completed half of the visits in your package, you’ll have the option to renew. Renewals are flexible depending on your needs (ongoing, quarterly, yearly etc.)
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No. All of our personalized exercise programs are cash payment programs.
Empower often receives grants through local Parkinson’s organizations which are used for partial scholarships to help reduce your participation costs. We will be sure to offer any scholarship opportunities available to you when you sign up.
FAQs:
The Anti-Freeze Basics
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Groups offer social benefits but often lack the specific, challenging, high-rep practice needed for change. Personalized exercise wins for freezing of gait.
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The feeling like your feet are glued to the floor delaying or preventing you from walking
Trembling in your leg making it difficult to step
Stutter steps, delayed stepping, or inability to step when you want to
Difficulty starting or continuing stepping
Often proceeded by uncontrolled forward leaning and small, fast steps (festination)
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Walking through a doorway or narrow hallway
Turning, direction changes or stepping backwards such as backing up to a chair
Stepping from one type of surface to another such as carpet to tile
Stressful situations such as walking in a hurry or in crowds
Multi-tasking such as walking and talking or walking and thinking
When tired
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In addition to negatively impacting quality of life, people who experience freezing are at a higher risk of falling.
Understandably, people who experience freezing often report less confidence and higher fear of falling. This can reduce participation in exercise, social and leisure activities, which, in turn, causes more problems. Less movement and activity lead to disuse weakness and deconditioning, further increasing fall risk.
The earlier freezing of gait can be addressed, the better.
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Anti-Freeze Bootcamp has several key advantages:
Specific: Freezing of gait is so complex! Each person experiences a unique combination of factors that contribute to their freezing. Rather than throwing everything but the kitchen sink at you hoping something sticks, our assessment helps tease out the factors that are most problematic for you (physical, cognitive, emotional or often, a combination). We then use that information as the foundation to design a program customized to meet your specific needs.
Safety: In order to improve freezing, its crucial to practice situations that trigger freezing, so that you can learn how to respond. This can be really difficult to do safely on your own because of the inherent fall risk. One-on-one coaching and guarding from a trained professional and access to safety a harness allows you to achieve high repetitions of practice required in your problem areas, without worrying about injuries from falls.
Expertise: Each visit is taught by an experienced physical therapist with advanced Parkinson’s training. Having a skilled eye coaching you, setting up each exercise for success, and providing anti-freeze tips and tricks along the way is a game changer.
Challenge: If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. Choosing exercise that results in the right combination of success and failure is a must to create meaningful improvements.
Progression: This concept is so important it’s worth repeating: if it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. Doing the same set of exercises over and over again won’t cut it. We’ll help you understand exactly when and how it’s time to mix things up for maximum impact.
Learn How Dr. Hershberger Designs Your PERSONALIZED ANTI-FREEZE ACTION PLAN
From expert physical therapy, to personalized training programs, to our high‑energy group classes — there’s a place for you here. Learn how to train with purpose and gain the confidence that your movement medicine checks all the boxes to create your best future.
Parkinson’s Programs for Every Journey
One-on-One Services:
Welcome to your “Brain Fertilizing Zone”- where personalized exercise, progressive challenges, and exert coaching work together to help your brain re-wire, and build a stronger, more confident future.
Group Services
Empower Hour is our evening Parkinson’s class for people who want to train with intention. We combine functional strength work, balance training, dual‑tasking, and aerobic challenges to support mobility, confidence, and long‑term brain health. It’s fun, challenging, and designed to help you get the most potent benefits from exercise — with instructors who truly understand Parkinson’s.