As we live our lives, at some point and time we will be faced with a conflict that really affects our outlook on life. It shows us what is really important and what is just petty. The thing that conflicted my life recently was being faced with the fact that my grandmother has parkinson's disease. When faced with a conflict it is obvious that we want to try to solve it or do what we can, especially when it is someone that means so much to us. Knowing someone with this disease, I felt compelled to write my paper on information given in the article, Physical therapy not associated with improvements in patients with early stages Parkinson's disease
which is associated with the disease.
So what is Parkinson’s? According to the National Parkinson …show more content…
One of the things that was suppose to help her with this disease was physical therapy. However the article Physical therapy not associated with improvements in patients with early stages Parkinson's disease suggests that physical therapy may not even be helping patients. The study was conducted in the United Kingdom and they say that “For patients with mild to moderate Parkinson disease (PD) there were no clinically meaningful benefits to activities of daily living or quality of life associated with physiotherapy and occupational therapy”, hearing this makes me wonder how they determined this through their study and what can they find that does help patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s …show more content…
If the researchers were to continue this study they would need to explore the development and testing of more structured and intensive PT programs in patients with all stages of PD. By doing so more clinically meaningful results might be produced.
The study done by the researchers in the united Kingdom and the results produced doesn’t give much hope to those hoping therapy would work. However, the researchers stated that it is possible that mild to moderate disease may not respond to therapies, whereas more severe disease may respond, "although this remains to be established," according to the results. Hopefully this is something that can be established.
The article Physical therapy not associated with improvements in patients with early stages Parkinson's disease did not suggest whether they would find something more efficient to helped diagnosed patients. However, if that is something they could do in the future, that would be wonderful. It would not only help my family, but many other families going through the same
which is associated with the disease.
So what is Parkinson’s? According to the National Parkinson …show more content…
One of the things that was suppose to help her with this disease was physical therapy. However the article Physical therapy not associated with improvements in patients with early stages Parkinson's disease suggests that physical therapy may not even be helping patients. The study was conducted in the United Kingdom and they say that “For patients with mild to moderate Parkinson disease (PD) there were no clinically meaningful benefits to activities of daily living or quality of life associated with physiotherapy and occupational therapy”, hearing this makes me wonder how they determined this through their study and what can they find that does help patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s …show more content…
If the researchers were to continue this study they would need to explore the development and testing of more structured and intensive PT programs in patients with all stages of PD. By doing so more clinically meaningful results might be produced.
The study done by the researchers in the united Kingdom and the results produced doesn’t give much hope to those hoping therapy would work. However, the researchers stated that it is possible that mild to moderate disease may not respond to therapies, whereas more severe disease may respond, "although this remains to be established," according to the results. Hopefully this is something that can be established.
The article Physical therapy not associated with improvements in patients with early stages Parkinson's disease did not suggest whether they would find something more efficient to helped diagnosed patients. However, if that is something they could do in the future, that would be wonderful. It would not only help my family, but many other families going through the same