Rehabilitation training for Parkinson’s disease patients

  Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease of the nervous system commonly seen in middle-aged and elderly people. Parkinson’s disease can cause tremors, slow movements, muscle stiffness, and easy falls, which will seriously affect the normal life of Parkinson’s patients. Therefore, the treatment of Parkinson’s should not be delayed.  However, we know that while Parkinson’s treatment is carried out, Parkinson’s rehabilitation is also one of the essential factors to ensure the recovery of patients, so how can we help patients as their family members to carry out Parkinson’s rehabilitation in daily life to reduce the pain of Parkinson’s patients and accelerate the healing of Parkinson’s?  1, daily life training In daily life, family members should actively encourage Parkinson’s patients to put on and take off soft, loose clothing to strengthen upper limb activities and upper and lower dominance and training. For those who have difficulty getting up on their own, the head of the bed can be raised and a rope can be tied at the end of the bed to facilitate the patient’s pulling up. Avoid sitting on too soft sofas and chairs that are deeply concave, and try to sit on sitting devices with armrests on both sides, or raise the back of the chair so that it has a certain inclination to facilitate getting up.  2, facial function training As the face of Parkinson’s patients is “mask face”, which is mainly due to facial muscle stiffness resulting in dull facial expression, so the training of facial function is quite necessary. Facial function training is mainly frowning exercise, cheek puffing exercise, showing teeth and whistling action, as well as smiling, laughing, pouting, and other actions in the mirror.  3, gait training every day planned to stand in place and high leg stepping, standing position, sitting position to do left and right alternate ankle dorsiflexion; forward, backward stride to move the center of gravity and other sports exercises. When walking, step width and width control can be controlled by adding markers on the floor, such as walking line markers, transfer line markers or footprint markers, etc. Walk according to the markers to get gait control. If there is a small fragmented gait, you can wear shoes with a large abrasive force on the sole, such as rubber soles, so that walking is not easy to slip.  For forward gait, avoid shoes with a heel or slanted heel; flat-heeled shoes can slow down the forward gait. A cane can help to limit the patient’s forward gait and maintain balance.  4. Active or passive joint training Parkinson’s patients may lose the ability to take care of themselves, so joint training is essential to strengthen the range of stretching muscles and traction of shortened, stiff muscles. The movement should be gentle and slow, and the joints and muscles of the neck, waist, and limbs should be massaged 3-5 times a day for 15-30 minutes each time to maintain the range of motion of the joints as much as possible.  The above is a brief introduction to rehabilitation training for Parkinson’s patients, and I hope it will help the majority of patients to restore their ability to take care of themselves as soon as possible. Parkinson’s is a disease that can make people lose their autonomy, but it is not a terrible disease, we must firmly overcome it, first do a good job of Parkinson’s prevention, especially the middle-aged and elderly people should pay high attention. For patients suffering from Parkinson’s should be timely Parkinson’s treatment, and make good Parkinson’s care and rehabilitation training, to help patients get rid of Parkinson’s torture as soon as possible!