Parkinson's Motor Symptoms Reduce With Everyday Activity

Research shows that everyday routine and activity can help people to remain healthy in spite of Parkinson's disease. A scientists' team at the New University of Michigan found that taking a few strolls around the neighborhood or just folding clothes can help to put patients at ease, according to scienceworldreport.

Can exercises, like swimming or aerobics also support the decrease in motor symptoms that makes patients remain sedentary? It certainly seems to!

Over a month, scientists looked at the link between the duration between non-exercise and physical activity, as well as motor symptom severity for 48 Parkinson's disease patients. They also performed PET brain imaging to examine dopamine levels and brought out a set of questions to check how physically active the patients were, including through exercise and non-exercise activity. Findings revealed that non-exercise activity helped to lower less severe motor symptoms.

"This may have a big impact for Parkinson's patients," said co-author Jonathan Snider, M.D., clinical lecturer of neurology at the University of Michigan, in a news release. "Not only worsening Parkinsonism but also increasingly sedentary behavior may explain more severe motor symptoms in advanced Parkinson's disease."