Effectiveness of an Inpatient Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Program for People With Parkinson Disease

Abstract

The results suggest that subjects with a diagnosis of PD as a primary condition benefited from an inpatient rehabilitation program designed to improve functional status.

Multidisciplinary care of patients with Parkinson's disease

“…16 A programme consisting of a combination of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy for a total of three hours per day for five to seven days per week led to significant improvements in timed up and go, two-minute walk test and finger tapping. 17 Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have showed mixed results. Wade et al found a trend towards improved gait but deterioration in health-related quality of life and carer strain with a programme of multidisciplinary rehabilitation.…”

Influência do fortalecimento muscular na independência funcional de indivíduos parkinsonianos

“…Paula et al 25 relataram melhora no equilí-brio e na independência funcional de indiví-duos com DP, após realização de um programa composto por treinamento resistido e aeróbico, durante 12 semanas. Em um trabalho de Ellis et al 26 , foi observado aumento nos escores total de medida de independência funcional, após um programa de atividade física, em que foram realizados alongamento de membros superiores e inferiores, exercícios resistidos, treino de marcha e equilíbrio e treinamento funcional em pacientes com DP.…”

Rhythmic exercises in rehabilitation of TBI patients: A case report

“…Some studies did not find bilateral movement training alone to be effective with stroke patients (Desrosiers et al, 2005). Bilateral Arm Training With Rhythmic Auditory Cueing (BATRAC), a repetitive bilateral arm movement exercise has been found to be effective for upper extremity rehabilitation after stroke (Waller and Whitall, 2008;Whitall et al, 2000) Walking exercises with Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) have been shown to improve gait with Parkinson's patients (Ellis et al, 2008;Password, 2007;Thaut et al, 2007Thaut et al, , 1997Thaut et al, , 1996, and another study with Parkinson's patients used spatial and temporal rhythmic visual cues to change and improve the patients' walking speed on a treadmill (van Wegen et al, 2006). Another study using RAS protocol with children diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy reportedly improved their gait performance (Kwak, 2007).…”