期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2014
卷号：21
期号：4
页码：790-791
DOI：10.5604/12321966.1129934
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：International UnderstAID project shows the role of physiotherapist in patients with dementia as divided into two branches:helping to resolve the physical problems and solving the problems related to dementia. The role of physiotherapist indementia treatment may be divided into two branches: helping to resolve the physical problems and solving the problemsrelated to dementia. The physical problems consider such aspects as musculoskeletal disorders, mobility dysfunction andpain. Referring to musculoskeletal problems, the interventions of physical therapists should included whole-body progressiveresistance exercise training, strengthening, “range-of-motion” and stretching exercises and transfer training. Mobilitydisorders are associated with physical symptoms such as: rigidity, balance problem, shuffling gait. Decreased mobility canbe based on unrelieved pain. These are some crucial scales which are designed to detected the pain. For instance, The PainAssessment in Advanced Dementia. Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, massage or exercises can be provide toreduce the pain in patients with dementia. Physiotherapy in dementia treatment influences not only physical functions butalso the maintenance or progression of cognitive abilities of demented elderly subjects
关键词：dementia; in home physiotherapy; proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF); Hip fracture
