Boxers with Parkinson's 2025 Fundraiser

What started out as a simple spreadsheet to organize assessment data for people with Parkinson’s is now a comprehensive, professional-grade, large-scale Parkinson's assessment tool, Our core service base is the boxers with PD in the Rock Steady Boxing network (40,000+) and, soon we will expand to the larger community of people with PD (1,000,000+).  Boxers with Parkinson’s, BwP, expects 2025 to be a breakout year tripling again (or better) our assessment and research base within the Parkinson’s community.

For people living with Parkinson's (PD), there’s a saying… Even is Winning!  And the only way to know if you are staying even is to measure your symptom progression through regular, professional assessments.  BwP’s assessment tools provide people with PD meaningful insights in the fight against the symptoms of PD. We provide Rock Steady Boxing coaches with innovative insights to make better coaches.  And, now that we are crossing the 1,000-participant milestone, we will provide researchers exercise and Parkinson's data never before available in numbers never before possible.  

One Rock Steady gym owner told us that PARS might be the best app she’s ever used.  A boxer told us she had “learned more about her Parkinson’s in 30 minutes from PARS than she had in 3 years from her neurologist.”   

We are currently marketing to the nearly 900 Rock Steady Boxing gyms around the country.  In the short term, 2025 brings several growing pains.   We need to upgrade our servers to improve performance and provide capacity for long term growth.  We need to port the database architecture to support thousands of clients and assessments.  We need to make it easier for researchers to access and use the data.  We need to add HIPPA compliance features for our medical partners.  And we need to add new, innovative assessment tests and measurements taking advantage of new technology including AI.  

Your tax-deductible donation gives us the fuel to run fast this year.   Your support is sincerely appreciated.  If you have friends or family with a connection to Parkinson’s, please tell them about us and refer them to this page.  

Michael Sellars
Boxers with Parkinson’s
425-830-4472
mike@BwPART.org