The practice of physical exercises and interference in the clinical manifestations of Parkinson's disease

Abstract

Objective: To identify evidence that the intervention of physical exercise in patients with diagnosed Parkinson's disease alleviates the clinical manifestations of the disease. Method: This is an integrative literature review that evaluates data from twenty-two studies from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health and Scientific Electronic Library Online and Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde databases. For this search, the selected descriptors were “intervention studies” and “Parkinson disease” and “physical exercise”, including full articles, in English and published from 2019 to 2024. Results: It was found, through the studies, that the The practice of physical exercise in patients with Parkinson's disease had a positive impact on the clinical manifestations of the disease, such as motor and cognitive aspects, and, in some cases, on the patient's quality of life. Conclusion: There is interference from physical exercise in Parkinson's disease, alleviating the symptoms. Finally, the main limitation was the heterogeneity of the types of exercises, which disperses the focus and in-depth studies.