ParkProTrain: an individualized, tablet-based physiotherapy training programme aimed at improving quality of life and participation restrictions in PD patients – a study protocol for a quasi-randomized, longitudinal and sequential multi-method study
General
Art der Publikation: Journal Article
Veröffentlicht auf / in: BMC Neurology
Issue: 19
Jahr: 2019
Band / Volume: 143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-019-1355-x
ISSN: 1471-2377
Authors
Caroline Siegert
Björn Hauptmann
Andreas Schrader
Ruth Deck
Abstract
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. Patients suffer from a variety of motor and non-motor symptoms that severely affect their daily lives and quality of life. In many cases, a three-week inpatient Parkinson’s complex treatment (MKP) can improve the overall condition and quality of life of patients in a short time. In the outpatient sector, however, there is often a lack of human resources and structures necessary for the interdisciplinary treatment of the disease. To support PD patients in continuing the physical exercises they learned from the MKP on a regular basis, a tablet-based training programme will be developed in which exercises can be adjusted to the patient’s abilities. This programme is expected to increase quality of life and social participation, as well as delay the progression of the impairment.