Home-based prescribed exercise improves balance-related activities and gait speed in people with Parkinson 's disease , and these improvements are similar to improvements with equivalent centre-based exercise .
QUESTIONS In people with Parkinson 's disease , does home-based prescribed exercise improve balance-related activities and quality of life compared with no intervention ?
Are the effects of home-based exercise similar to those of equivalent centre-based exercise ?
Effects of home exercises on motor performance in patients with Parkinson's disease
Objective : To investigate the effect of home exercises on the motor performance of patients with Parkinson 's disease . Design : A prospect i ve blinded study with allocation of patients into their groups by alternate weeks . Setting : A University Hospital neurology and physiotherapy department . Subjects : Recruited from a movement disorders outpatient clinic of Cerrahpasa School of Medicine diagnosed with Parkinson 's disease , classified as Hoehn and Yahr Grade s I , II and III . Interventions : Patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were recruited to the study . Each patient was evaluated at the end of first and second month after the baseline evaluation . Patients were divided into two groups . Those in the first and third week were put in the exercise group and second and fourth week in the control group . Patients in the exercise group ( n=15 ) were given a schedule of exercises to undertake at home ; the others ( n=15 ) did not receive this instruction . Measures : Ten- and 20-m walking test , first pace length , pace number in 10 m , walking around a chair , Nine Hole Peg Board ( NHPB ) test . Results : Following the home exercise programme , patients in the exercise group showed improvement in walking 10 and 20 m , time elapsed to complete walking around a chair and length of the first pace length , and in the motor performance of both h and s ( p < 0.001 ) . Conclusions : A home-based rehabilitation programme for patients with Parkinson 's disease helped to improve motor performance compared to patients who did not take advantage of a regular , professionally design ed exercise programme
Home-based prescribed exercise improves balance-related activities and gait speed in people with Parkinson 's disease , and these improvements are similar to improvements with equivalent centre-based exercise .
QUESTIONS In people with Parkinson 's disease , does home-based prescribed exercise improve balance-related activities and quality of life compared with no intervention ?
Are the effects of home-based exercise similar to those of equivalent centre-based exercise ?