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APPDE Resources
DVD
Practical Guidelines for Physiotherapy in Parkinson’s Disease
The APPDE has produced a DVD designed to facilitate physiotherapists’ decisions on the best treatment options throughout the different disease stages. The DVD is based on the clinical practice guidelines developed and supported by the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF) who, together with the pharmaceutical industry, provided supplementary sponsorship.
The DVD is rich in video footage. It includes background on Parkinson’s, information on compensatory movement strategies, therapy aims for different disease stages, details of evaluation methods, and evidence based guidelines with supporting references.
E-mail info@appde.eu for an order form or download here.
VIDEO
A film by Mariella Graziano, physiotherapist, Luxembourg, 2000
The video has been made by APPDE President, Mariella Graziano, and shows simple and effective way to overcome some of the movement difficulties associated with Parkinson’s. It gives useful ideas on how to manage freezing, getting out of a chair, walking and doing two things at once. It is useful for people with Parkinson’s, their carers, and is a resource for the multi-disciplinary team.
E-mail info@appde.eu for an order form or download here.
External Resources
Guidelines for the treatment of apomorphine nodules using therapeutic ultrasound.
A team of researchers recently conducted a pilot study of the use of therapeutic ultrasound to treat apomorphine nodules. Details of their study and the guidelines they produced as a result can be found via the website ‘Electrotherapy on the Web. An Educational Resource’.
The international Rescue consortium undertook an EC funded project to investigate cueing as a rehabilitation strategy in Parkinson’s
The Dutch ‘Clinical practice guidelines' for physical therapy in patients with Parkinson’s disease
KNGF Guidelines
for physical therapy in patients with
Parkinson's disease
Supplement to the Dutch Journal of Physiotherapy (Volume 114 / Issue 3 / 2004)
Provided here with kind permission of the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy.
ParkinsonNet
ParkinsonNet is an initiative which builds on the Dutch Guidelines for Physiotherapy in Parkinson’s Disease, and aims to support physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists to deliver evidence-based physiotherapy to people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers.
www.parkinsonweb.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=43
Let’s keep moving – a DVD of movement exercises for people with Parkinson’s disease
Susanne Brühlmann, physiotherapist at the HUMAINE Clinic, Zihlschlacht, Switzerland, and a member of the APPDE, in cooperation with Parkinson Switzerland, has put together a DVD with more than 70 exercises for people with Parkinson’s disease, explained in German, French, Italian and English.
The DVD will be available mid-April 2009 from Parkinson Switzerland, PO Box 123, CH-8132 Egg, Switzerland, tel. +41 (0)43 277 20 77, fax +41 (0)43 277 20 78, e-mail: info@parkinson.ch. Price: CHF 41.00 (excl. shipping).