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ArticleJournal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea)2013

The Efficacy of Exercise Programs for Parkinson's Disease: Tai Chi versus Combined Exercise.

Sang-Myung Cheon, Bo-Kyung Chae, Hye-Ryun Sung, Geon Cheol Lee, Jae Woo Kim

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Article in Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Sang-Myung CheonDepartment of Neurology, Dong-A University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
Bo-Kyung Chae
Hye-Ryun Sung
Geon Cheol Lee
Jae Woo Kim

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background and purposeExercise is recommended for every patient with Parkinson's disease (PD). The effectiveness of two different forms of exercise for PD, Tai Chi and combined stretching-strengthening exercise, was compared.

methodsPatients with mild-to-moderate PD were recruited to join either the combined stretching-strengthening exercise group (n=7), the Tai Chi group (n=9), or the control (nonintervention) group (n=7). Exercise was performed three times a week over a period of 8 weeks. The Tai Chi exercise was led by certified instructors based on a Tai-Chi-for-arthritis program. The combined stretching-strengthening exercise comprised folk dancing, stepping, and elastic-band exercises. The subjects' functional fitness, parkinsonian symptoms, quality of life (QoL), and depression were evaluated.

resultsBoth exercise groups yielded better results in their overall functional fitness after the intervention. However, no improvement with exercise was found for parkinsonian symptoms, as evaluated using the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale. With respect to the domains of QoL, the combined stretching-strengthening exercise group fared better in the social domain of QoL, and the Tai Chi group fared better in the emotional domain, while QoL and depression worsened in the control group. The postintervention QoL was improved relative to the control condition only for the Tai Chi group. Although the exercise interventions did not have any effect on depression, the control group was associated with a significant deterioration.

conclusionsExercise improved the functional fitness and QoL of PD patients, with Tai Chi yielding better results in QoL and favorable results in functional fitness. These findings suggest that Tai Chi could be a good exercise strategy for patients with PD.

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exerciseParkinson's diseasequality of lifeTai Chi

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