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Does aerobic exercise lead to any change in ability to perform ADLs in patients with Parkinson's disease?

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Neurology · Wake Forest School of Medicine

In this article, improvement in overall fitness was seen in patients in the aerobic exercise group. I could not find a scale that specifically looked at ADLs in this study.

In a meta-analysis and systematic analysis published in NPJ Parkinson's Disease, authors found aerobic exercise had beneficial e...

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Neurology · Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

We did not specifically investigate the effects of exercise in activities of daily living (ADLs). However, we can speculate about some potential beneficial effects. In the motor domain, we found that exercise prevented the progression of neural dysfunction by facilitating the maintenance of neural r...

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