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A Research on Whether Eighteen-week Regular Exercise Can Improve Physical Characteristics and Quality of Life of Parkinson's Disease Patients Mau-Chang Du Taipei Municipal University of Education
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to understand whether an eighteen-week regular exercise program can improve the physical characteristics and quality of life for Parkinson's disease patients. A purposive sampling method was adopted in this study to collect samples, that is, participants must be diagnosed as primary patients with Parkinson's disease by cranial nerve physicians. 13 participants have completed this study, in which questionnaires and experimental methods were used for data collection. Some first-phase variables, such as the daily-living capability, motor ability, functional fitness, and quality of life of the participants before and after the 18-week regular exercise, have been compared by T-test to find out whether there are significant differences. In addition, the variables of functional fitness of the participants after the first stage and the second stage of regular exercise were also compared for significant levels. The results are as follows:
First, after the first stage regular exercise, patients with Parkinson's disease have significantly improved their daily-living capability And the improvements achieve significant differences.
Second, after the first stage regular exercise, patients with Parkinson's disease have significantly improved their motor ability And the improvements achieve significant differences.
Third, after the first stage regular exercise, patients with Parkinson's disease have significantly improved in four items of their functional fitness, namely the flexibility and muscle strength of their lower limbs, agility, and cardiovascular endurance. And the improvements achieve significant differences.
Fourth, after the first stage regular exercise, patients with Parkinson's disease have significantly improved their quality of life. And the improvements achieve significant differences.
Fifth, after two stages of regular exercise, patients with Parkinson's disease have significantly improved their functional fitness in terms of muscle strength of the lower limbs and agility. And the improvements achieve significant differences.
Conclusion: Although some test results have not shown significant differences, it is safe to say that regular exercise is helpful to patients with Parkinson's disease and it is worthy to continue further research in this regular-exercise topic so as to confirm its effectiveness and to explore some mechanisms.
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, regular exercise, physical
characteristics, quality of life
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