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Prediction of outcome of physiotherapy in advanced Parkinson's disease

Nieuwboer, Alice, De Weerdt, Willy, Dom, René, Bogaerts, Kris·2002·Clinical Rehabilitation
DOI 10.1191/0269215502cr573oa
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OBJECTIVE: Prediction of the effect of a home physiotherapy intervention on the basis of four clinical characteristics of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease. DESIGN: A repeated measures design comparing six weeks without treatment with six weeks of physiotherapy and a follow-up of 12 weeks. SUBJECTS: Persons with Parkinson's disease without dementia and suffering from considerable functional disability. INTERVENTION: Community physiotherapists treated patients in the home situation three times a week teaching cueing and conscious movement control for walking and carrying out transfers in and out of beds and chairs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mental status, disease severity, age and mood were included as predictor variables. A new functional scale developed as part of a previous study was used as the dependent variable administered in both the hospital and the home to determine whether the outcome generalized from the learning to a different environment. RESULTS: Only disease severity was a negative predictor of treatment outcome at home. In the hospital setting none of the factors predicted the immediate effect of treatment but cognitive ability and age were determinants of whether the treatment effects were maintained in the long term. CONCLUSIONS: Using cueing and cognitive strategies benefited younger and older patients with Parkinson's disease alike. However, the findings indicate targeting of treatment at patients with milder disease severity and providing follow-up treatment for older and cognitively less able patients.

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Authors
Nieuwboer, A., De Weerdt, W., Dom, R., & Bogaerts, K.
Affiliations
  • KU Leuven (BE)
  • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Venue
Clinical Rehabilitation
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2002-12
Volume
16
Issue
8
Pages
886-893
ISSN
  • 0269-2155 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-0873
DOI
10.1191/0269215502cr573oa
OpenAlex
W2108482425
Cited by
34
References
24
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
2.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Clinical Rehabilitation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
Keywords
Parkinson's disease, home-based physiotherapy, treatment outcome prediction, cueing strategies, functional disability, disease severity, cognitive ability, age, transfer of learning, functional scales, walking
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cognition, Female, Forecasting, Persons with Disabilities, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Parkinson Disease, Prognosis, Severity of Illness Index, Treatment Outcome, Physical Therapy Modalities

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