The power of ping-pong over Parkinson's

Those with the Parkinson's are finding that table tennis has therapeutic value

"If you go, I will go with you," said Lars Svensson to his elder brother Jan-Erik Svensson on hearing that the latter wanted to take part in the first World Parkinson's Table Tennis Championship in Pleasantville, 50 kilometers from New York.

The Swedish brothers turned up for the event in mid-October in which 62 players from 11 countries took up paddles to play for health, for a sense of camaraderie, and to "shake the world", in the words of Nenad Bach, a Croatian living in New York whose life experiences inspired the event.