Body experience for patients with Parkinson disease: effect on functional capacity

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves,Lucia Hisako Takase
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Benedetti,Tânia Rosane Bertoldo, lopes,Marize Amorim, Vilela,Alba Benemérita Alves, santos,Clarice Alves dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/277
• topic: Health technology, motor activity, elderly, Parkinson disease.

<p><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> To evaluate the effects of body activity intervention on functional capability of the patients with Parkinson disease.<br> <b>METHOD:</b> Convergent-assisted research was used testing the intervention on 17 patients, 8 in Florian&oacute;polis, SC, and 9 in Jequi&eacute;, BA. These groups were submitted to the intervention of body activity, a health technology, constituted by elongation exercise, local muscle resistance, coordination, flexibility, agility and balance by adopting diversified dance procedures, recreation and other adapted and motivating resources, lasting one hour of intervention and twice a week. For its assessment, was adopted a number of field tests on functional capability measurement from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). The study included five tests: strength and muscle resistance; coordination; flexibility of trunk and legs; balance, agility; and aerobic resistance.<br> <b>RESULTS:</b> All averages of the analyzed variables have improved in both groups, from pre-test to post-test. It was also observed among patients from Jequi&eacute; that improvement in all variables averages with prominence on the statistically significant difference on strength variables (p = 0.04) and agility/balance (p = 0.05) among patients in Jequi&eacute;. Has been more pronounced when compared to the patients of Florian&oacute;polis.<br> <b>CONCLUSION:</b> It seems that body activity intervention adopted affects positively on functional capability of Parkinson disease patients keeping their muscles, bones and joints in good conditions and also maintaining them independents for daily life activities, even experiencing the disease progression.</p>