Effect of Pro-kin visual feedback balance training on balance function of individuals with early Parkinson's disease : a randomized controlled pilot trial

© 2023 Han T et al..

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Patients often present with balance dysfunction. Several studies have applied visual feedback training to stroke patients and demonstrated significant improvement. However, the application of visual feedback balance training in PD patients has not been reported.

Objective: To observe the effects of visual feedback balance training combined with conventional rehabilitation training on the balance function of patients with early PD.

Methods: Fifty patients with early PD were randomly divided into control group and observation group. The control group received conventional rehabilitation training, including body position transfer, weight shifting, movement in all directions and gait training. The observation group were added with visual feedback balance training on the basis of the training above. All patients were trained 5 times per week for 4 weeks. Berg Balance Scale (BBS), Time Up-and-Go test (TUG) and Pro-Kin balance training instrument were used to evaluate the balance function of patients before and after treatment, and the balance function were compared between the two groups.

Results: The BBS and TUG scores of the observation group and the control group were improved significantly (P<0.01), and the BBS and TUG scores of the observation group were improved more obviously than control group (P<0.01). The length and area of eye open and closed condition in the observation group and the control group were significantly reduced compared with those before training (P<0.01), and the degree of reduction in the observation group was more obvious (P<0.01). The length and area of the observation group and the control group before and after training when eye open were smaller than those when eye closed (P<0.01).

Conclusion: The conventional rehabilitation therapy can improve the balance function of PD patients, but the combination of visual feedback balance training and conventional rehabilitation therapy can improve the balance function more significantly.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

African health sciences - 23(2023), 2 vom: 30. Juni, Seite 582-588

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Han, Tingting [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Yaguang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yuxia [VerfasserIn]
Xue, Kangying [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Balance
Journal Article
Parkinson
Randomized Controlled Trial
Rehabilitation
Visual feedback

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Date Completed 16.01.2024

Date Revised 16.01.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4314/ahs.v23i2.67

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367141337