Parkinson's Disease: Advanced-Intensive Physiotherapeutic Rehabilitation in the Physiotherapy Laboratory at UAMD

Abstract

The objective: The objective of this topic is to slow down Parkinson's disease, verifying which of the rehabilitations is more efficient the advanced one compared to the traditional one. Material and Method: The study was conducted during the period January-November 2024 and these data were extracted from the clinical records of patients and rehabilitation was done in the physiotherapy laboratory at UAMD. There are a total of 32 patients in the age group of 51-90 years, with PD. From January-November 2024 there were 15 patients who underwent simple physiotherapeutic rehabilitation and there were 17 patients who underwent intensive physiotherapeutic rehabilitation. Results: Out of 32 patients with PD included in the study, the most affected age group is 71-80 years old for both genders. There is a predominance of this age with 53% for gender F compared to the 71-80 age group with 41% for gender M. Regarding the stages of the disease, which 17 of them have undergone intensive rehabilitation and they have very good results compared to 15 patients who have done simple rehabilitation which have good results. Discussion: Our country urgently needs to establish a standardized rehabilitation protocol, and assessment scales for Parkinson's disease. In this paper, we proved that with advanced-intensive e physiotherapeutic rehabilitation, we had very good results for 1- 4 phases of the disease.

Received: 5 January 2025 / Accepted: 2 March 2025 / Published: 25 March 2025