Developing the effective falls prevention strategy in home-care patients with Parkinson's disease

本研究旨在了解居家照护帕金森氏症（PD）患者福尔斯的实际情况及影响因素，并建立预防福尔斯的有效物理疗法。应用加速度计定量测量PD患者的日常体力活动，并与同龄健康老年人进行比较。结果，以下事实被揭露。在一天中，站立的时间很长，而步行的时间很短。在转弯时，在转弯之前预先启动方向改变。在此基础上，设计了以大幅度运动和转弯时预测性颈部旋转为重点的运动方案

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the actual condition and the factor affecting of falls in home-care patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), and to create the effective physiotherapy for falls prevention. The daily physical activities of PD were measured quantitatively using the accelerometer, and compared with those of the healthy elderly people of the same age. As the result, the following facts were revealed. Duration of standing is long, whereas duration of walking is short during a single day. In turning a corner, a direction change was initiated previously before the corner. Based upon these observations, the exercise program which focused on big movement and predictive neck rotation at turning a corner was designed