How to exercise daily for Parkinson’s patients with limb stiffness?

Stiffness is one of the typical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Patients often start unilaterally and will feel stiffness in their limbs, experience motor delays, and even have difficulty doing some daily movements. Limb stiffness is one of the main factors affecting the motor ability of patients with Parkinson’s disease, often leading to difficulties in starting, forward gait and easy falls, affecting the health and safety of patients. The following methods are listed for you today and can help patients relieve limb stiffness. I. Perform joint range-of-motion training. Pay attention to the activities of each joint in place, but also to avoid excessive stretching and the appearance of pain, otherwise it will produce reflex muscle contraction, but also strain the tissue, forming scars, causing joint adhesions to reduce the range of motion. Attention should also be paid to the possibility of osteoporosis in the patient to avoid fractures caused by the activity. For patients who have developed joint contracture should be gradual, to avoid muscle strain. Second, perform relaxation exercises. Worry about the mobility and slow movement in public places is the reason why Parkinson’s disease patients are very nervous psychologically, relaxation and deep breathing exercises help to reduce this feeling. Do this in a quiet, softly lit place, dressed loosely, with your body in as comfortable a position as possible, close your eyes, then begin to breathe deeply and slowly, and focus on your breathing. Inhale through the nose, the abdomen bulges during inhalation, tighten during exhalation, and imagine the air reaching upward to the forehead, through the head and back to the feet, do this exercise continuously for 5-15 minutes can make the whole body muscle relaxation. Third, balance training can also improve Parkinson’s disease body stiffness. Due to the impaired postural reflexes of Parkinson’s disease patients, when walking fast forward, they are prone to fall when encountering obstacles or suddenly stopping, so balance training for patients must be emphasized. Practice slow in-situ stepping and stepping on the presence of one foot standing, which can also make the single foot landing longer, alternating between the two sides. To carry out the training of walking, to walk in large rhythmic steps, and so that the patient can listen to a certain password, or have a certain password beat themselves, powerful, large steps to maintain the balance of the movement, but also to increase the muscle strength and coordination. Most of the patients have difficulties in starting, so they can use imaginary or real obstacles, such as drawing some lines on the ground, and let the patient cross them by drawing lines, or let the patient imagine that there are several lines on the ground to cross the training, so as to carry out the balance training.