What Should Be Paid Attention To in Rehabilitation Training For Parkinson's Patients?

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The main manifestations of Parkinson's patients are movement disorders, slow movements, shaking, and feeling of stiffness in the limbs. Many patients have basically stayed at home since they were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease because they were worried about their poor balance and inconvenience in movement, so as to reduce the risk of accidents such as falls. There are also some patients who hope to compensate for the decline in motor function caused by the disease through intensive exercise after the doctor has just diagnosed Parkinson's disease.

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In fact, exercise has great benefits for the physical and mental health of Parkinson's patients. Because Parkinson's disease affects a person's ability to move, regular exercise can help keep muscles strong and improve their flexibility. Exercise doesn't stop the progression of Parkinson's disease, but it improves balance, helps people overcome problems with walking, and improves problems with swallowing and speaking. Exercise can also prevent some long-term complications of Parkinson's disease, such as joint stiffness.

What should Parkinson's patients pay attention to when exercising?

1. Exercise after the drug takes effect: It is recommended that patients with Parkinson's disease exercise after the drug takes effect, because at this time, the patient's limb symptoms have been relieved, and they can do appropriate exercise and insist on it every day.

2. Moderate intensity: It is often emphasized that patients with Parkinson's disease do "appropriate" exercise, including moderate-intensity when exercising, not forcing themselves, and having to break through the limit. The same standard as normal people, the exercise time should not be too long.

3. Targeted exercise: Parkinson's disease can affect the muscles of the whole body, and the symptoms of the limbs can be greatly improved by rational drug use and surgical treatment of brain pacemakers, but the symptoms such as language barriers and dysphagia are not improved much, so it is necessary to Targeted exercise can be prevented by singing, reciting, reading aloud, reading newspapers, etc. before the language barrier occurs. After it occurs, it is necessary to practice simple pronunciation and practice swallowing.

4. Safety, avoid falling: Patients with Parkinson's disease have poor balance. When exercising, safety is very important. It is necessary to avoid falling. Some serious patients may need the assistance of their family members to exercise.

5. The importance of persistence: The improvement of exercise is not a matter of one or two days. Persistence can produce results.

Objectives of Parkinson's Disease Rehabilitation

The purpose of rehabilitation therapy is to guide correct exercise methods, maintain a good balance function and range of motion of muscles and joints, improve the patient's own motor function and endurance to a higher platform and delay its decline, thereby improving the patient's quality of life. , to maintain long working hours and self-care time limits.

To put it simply, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, many patients strongly hope to improve the disease state through their own exercise, but for each different disease and each patient's own situation, there are some suitable and inappropriate exercise methods, and Not every exercise is suitable for patients with Parkinson's disease, and some incorrect exercise methods may aggravate the disease. The purpose and significance of rehabilitation therapy are to guide patients' incorrect exercise methods and suitable home life patterns based on their own conditions. This improves patient function and delays disease progression.

What common sense should Parkinson's disease patients and their families know?

Parkinson's disease is not a contagious disease, and neither daily life nor close contact can transmit the disease. Parkinson's disease is not a hereditary disease. Like hypertension and diabetes, it is only a genetic predisposition. The prevalence of the patient's immediate family is higher than that of the general population, and it is not necessarily a disease. Therefore, family members do not need to be too nervous, but it is of great significance to carry out some targeted exercises under the guidance of neurological and rehabilitation specialists as soon as possible.