Review of Recent Rehabilitation Techniques for Fall Prevention in Parkinson’s Disease

Abstract

Background: Recurrent falls are a common phenomenon in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients which leads to increased healthcare costs, poor quality of life, and caregiver burden. Through suitable exercise training fall in PD patients can be prevented or minimized. Aim of this review was to provide recent information of different intervention strategies to prevent falls in PD. Methodology: Electronic data base such as PubMed and Scopus indexed journals were searched from the past five year to retrieve recent evidence. Keywords such as Parkinson’s disease, fall prevention and rehabilitation were used. Only Systematic review and RCT were added for the higher-level evidence data extraction. Conclusion: Eexercise-based program and Tai chi were found to have positive evidences for preventing falls in PD patients. However, various mechanism behind the fall in PD as well as worsening of the symptoms as the result of disease progression may be the reason behind the negative results of some of the intervention.