Effect of Highly Challenging Balance Training on Balance in Subjects with Chronic Parkinson’s Disease

Abstract

Background: Highly challenging balance training has been suggested to induce neuroplasticity inindividuals with chronic Parkinson’s disease (PD So, the present study aims to find the effect of highlychallenging balance training on balance in subjects with chronic Parkinson’s disease.Objective: To determine the effect of highly challenging balance training on balance in subjects withchronic Parkinson’s disease.Method: 30 subjects between the age group of 45-60 years diagnosed with PD were included in thestudy and conveniently allocated to the single group after fulfilling inclusion and exclusion criteria.Baseline data like age, gender, Hoehn &Yahr stage was noted. Subjects underwent Highly ChallengingBalance Training 45minutes per session 4 days/ week for 4 weeks. The pre and post test of balance wasdone by using Berg balance scales(BBS).Results: The highly challenging balance training on balance showed significant improvement inbalance in post-test and also showed significantly improved balance. (p<0.05) in subjects with chronicParkinson’s disease.Conclusion: The result of the present study shows that highly challenging balance training significantlyimproved balance and showed promising transfer effects to everyday living. Long-term follow-upassessments can be done to further explore these effects. The results also show that regular training isrequired for the subjects to maintain progress.