Psychomotor Exercises in Patients with Parkinson´s Disease

Authors

TRÁVNÍKOVÁ Dagmar BLAHUTKOVÁ Marie PACHOLÍK Viktor

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Gymnica
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Sports Studies

Citation
Field Sport and leisure time activities
Keywords Parkinson s Disease; psychomotricity; fine motor skills; physical exercise; motor activities programme
Description Parkinson s Disease, affecting several percentage of seniors, and its symptoms have impact on a rather wide range of functions and abilities of the patients such as coordination skills, movement skills, facial expressions, soft motor skills, etc.. We have applied a set of psychomotor activities in order to ascertain the possible positive impact on the patients with Parkinson s Disease. Although our motor activities programme was conducted only as a test pilot project without the intention to measure any particular data we shall state that patients with symptoms of the Parkinson s Disease have shown the will and enthusiasm to perform such activities. In our pilot motor programme we have been especially successful with the application of exercises focused on the development of balance skills, fine motor skills, coordinated movements of the limbs as well as facial gestures and voice control exercises.

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