The effect of Manual Therapy in Parkinson's Disease management.
Item
- Title
- The effect of Manual Therapy in Parkinson's Disease management.
- Author(s)
- Lai Su Maine, I
- Abstract
- Background: To investigate if Manual Therapy can have a positive effect in the management of Parkinson's Disease and therefore highlight the beneficial modalities used in the Manual Therapy field. Objective: To compare research papers available on manual therapy and Parkinson's Disease. To draw attention to any implications for further research. Design: Structure literature review. Methodology: Randomized controlled trials were selected according to inclusion/exclusion criteria, using relevant search terms in databases such as PubMed, Science Direct, Sciverse and Cochrane library. Studies were included if the full article was available, the language was English, the research published in or after 1998. Each article retrieved was outlined in an inclusion table. The Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy and PEDro scale were used to determine the quality of each study. Results: The search yielded 10 relevant randomized controlled trials. The SORT analysis exhibited a score of 1B and the PEDro scale demonstrated a score above 5/10 (high-quality RCT). Discussion: Sample size disparity amongst studies was identified. Males were more prevalent as subjects. Follow-up periods were not uniform as well as outcomes measured. Majorities of studies retrieved scored High-quality RCT according to the SORT analysis and PEDro scale but further blinding is needed for future research. Conclusion: this literature review highlighted that most modalities used in the manual therapy field for the management of Parkinson's Disease are rehabilitation training program and exercises.
- presented at
- European School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2017
- Date Submitted
- 4.12.2017 17:06:21
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 16044
- Inst-Identifier
- 1229
- Keywords
- Parkinson's disease, manual therapy
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Lai Su Maine, I, “The effect of Manual Therapy in Parkinson's Disease management.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 4, 2025, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/492