Recognizing Significance

Parkinson's Patients Benefit From Physical Therapy

(http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/251159.php)

I read a news story reporting the significance of physical therapy for those with Parkinson's Disease. Usually, drug therapy is used for those with this disease, which includes problems with movement, cognition, neurobehavior, as well as sensory difficulties. The physical therapy methods that are used to treat patients included dance, treadmill training, and other exercises. There was a study showing the clear improvement in patients. The most positive outcomes from physical therapy treatmeant were shown in three different areas-- Gait Speed, Berg balance scale (developed to measure balance among elderly people with balance function impairment by assessing the performance of functional tasks), and a clinician-rated disability scale. Improvements in these areas have proven to be meaningful for Parkinson's patients. 
Physical therapy can be helpful for people in many different cases. Physically, with exercises, as well as mentally, to get people in the right mind for improvement and get them along through tough treatments. Physical therapists play an important role in the healing process for those with physical impairments, those who got in a freak accident, and many more. There is a very diverse range of patients and cases, which is cool because physical therapists learn and experience a lot through their career and have to expect almost anything.