Self-check home exercises improves static and dynamic balance, fall efficacy, and quality of life in patients with Parkinson’s disease

Abstract

Parkinson’s disease is a chronic progressive disease of the nervous system associated with the basal ganglia and is characterized by rigidity, bradykinesia, tremor, and insta-bility of posture. In addition, it causes indirect disabilities and complications. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of self-check home exercise on fall prevention in patient with Parkinson’s disease. The present study included 20 patients who met the study criterion, which was a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. The present study was conducted over 12 weeks in the exercise therapy center of the G University Hospital. Periodically, once a month at the first, fifth, and ninth-week sessions, a neurosurgeon, a rehabilitation physician, a nurse in charge of neurosurgery programs dedicated to Park-inson’s disease, a physiotherapist, and an occupational therapist attended the home exer-cises program to provide group lessons to subjects, to provide feedback regarding the home exercises program, and to carry out a self-monitoring checklist performance rate. The results showed significant differences in TUG, FRTA, FRTP, FES, STS, 10MWT, MBI, and QoL (p