Research Article

Improvement of Balance, Motor Aspects, and Activities of Daily Living in Parkinson’s Disease after a Sequential Multimodal Aquatic- and Land-Based Intervention Program

Table 1

Multimodal intervention program framework.

Warm-up (15 minutes)Main part (30 minutes)Cooldown (5 minutes)

Functional mobility exercises:
(i) Gait in different directions and velocities, with turns, squats, pelvic, and scapular girdles
(ii) Cross the training area with hops and runs
(a) Lower limb muscle strength and power
(i) Kicking with the right and left leg
(ii) Abducting/adducting right and left leg
(b) Balance exercises
(i) Postural shift
(ii) Reduced base exercises
(iii) Gait with floating equipment (which increased instability) and obstacles
(iv) Maintain orthostatism on the aquatic trampoline with external perturbation
Initial Ai Chi postures in aquatic environment
Initial tai chi postures in land environment