theatre is a valid add-on therapeutic intervention for emotional rehabilitation of parkinson’s disease patients

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Abstract
Conventional medical treatments of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are effective on motor disturbances but may have little impact on nonmotor symptoms, especially psychiatric ones. Thus, even when motor symptomatology improves, patients might experience deterioration in their quality of life. We have shown that 3 years of active theatre is a valid complementary intervention for PD as it significantly improves the well-being of patients in comparison to patients undergoing conventional physiotherapy. Our aim was to replicate these findings while improving the efficacy of the treatment. We ran a single-blinded pilot study lasting 15 months on 24 subjects with moderate idiopathic PD. 12 were assigned to a theatre program in which patients underwent “emotional” training. The other 12 underwent group physiotherapy. Patients were evaluated at the beginning and at the end of their treatments, using a battery of eight clinical and five neuropsychological scales. We found that the emotional theatre training improved the emotional well-being of patients, whereas physiotherapy did not. Interestingly, neither of the groups showed improvements in either motor symptoms or cognitive abilities tested by the neuropsychological battery. We confirmed that theatre therapy might be helpful in improving emotional well-being in PD.
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Authors ;Giovanni Mirabella;Paolo De Vita;Michele Fragola;Silvia Rampelli;Francesco Lena;Fulvia Dilettuso;Marta Iacopini;Raffaella d’Avella;Maria Concetta Borgese;Silvia Mazzotta;Deborah Lanni;Marco Grano;Sara Lubrani;Nicola Modugno
Journal heat and mass transfer/waerme- und stoffuebertragung
Year 2017
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10.1155/2017/7436725
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7436725
Keywords
neurology diseases of the nervous system

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