- Film Name“Breaking the Cycle”
- CategoryFilm
- Year2013
- ProducerAdam Austin
- Director/ProducerRobert Rippberger
- Description Breaking the Cycle is a documentary on Huntington’s Disease, a family torn apart and how a bike ride and one courageous Matt Austin brings them all together.
Huntington’s Disease (HD), is a neurodegenerative, genetic disorder that affects muscle coordination and leads to cognitive degeneration and dementia. There is no cure. Persons who do have the disease usually die within 10 to 15 years. Any child of a parent who has one affected copy of the gene has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease. It affects roughly 200,000 Americans.