Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the world, affecting about 1% of the world's population with 60 years old or more. Its prevalence increases according with age, affecting both sexes, different social classes and ethnicities. Its cardinal symptoms are stiffness, bradykinesia, resting tremor, postural instability, freezing and flexed posture of trunk, limbs and neck. The diagnosis is clinical and it takes into account several factors. Symptoms can be controlled through therapeutic, non-drug, drug and surgical interventions. Among these interventions, physical activity appears to be an important factor in attenuating the symptoms. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact that physical exercise practice provided to the patient with PD. For this we use the UPDRS scales, PDQ-39 (mobility and DLA) and also a structured questionnaire. 111 patients were interviewed, and through the structured questionnaire, the patients were divided into 2 groups: Patients that practice Physical Exercises (70); not Physical Exercises (41). A Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan analyses the function connectivities into 3 groups: Walk (13 patients), Other EF(18 Patients) and non EF (19 patients). After the statistical analysis of the questionnaires, we found that there is a reduction in the scores of the PDQ-39 (mobility and DLA), that every hour destined to practice this score tends to fall on average 0.55 points. Although there was no significant difference in the UPDRS scores, and noted that there is increased functional connectivity in patient who exercise. This made it possible to understand the profile of the sample studied and to establish strategies to encourage adherence to Physical Exercises. Among the highlights are the awareness of patients and their caregivers regarding the benefit of physical exercise, offering physical exercise directed to this public in the public initiative and the reinforcement of interdisciplinary action as the basis that consolidates all intervention actions and that it is the best way to make the patient aware of the importance of all intervention actions to improve the quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease.
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