The Effectiveness of Global Postural Reeducation on Alzheimer Disease Patients

The Effectiveness of Physical Rehabilitation in the Enhancement of Proprioceptive and Cognitive Aspects on Alzheimer Disease Patients

This research study is developed on an experimental design with randomized controlled intervention were participated 135 subjects with AD including 45 of the control group. It lasted 6 months with pre-post tests (T0-T1) executed before and after six months of treatment. By having in focus the evaluation of GPR therapy effects on cognitive, proprioceptive, depressive, autonomy, gait and life quality of the above mentioned subjects.

In order to assess the cognitive abilities of the patients a cognitive test was administered which acts through a scale concerning depression and mood evaluation as well as a questionnaire was developed aiming to evaluate the examined subjects' functional abilities: Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Quality of Life in Alzheimer Disease (QoL-AD), geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Barthel Index (BI), Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI), Tinetti Scale (TS).

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
• Older than 40 years of age
• Male and female
• Intellectual disability
• Cognitive impairment
• Able to do daily activities on his own
• No presence of any other neurological and psychological disease
• No presence of brain tumors

Exclusion Criteria:

• No presence of Alzheimer's Disease
• Under 40 years old
• Presence of brain tumors
• Neurological patients
• Presence of psychiatric disease
• Depression symptoms
• Presence of neuromuscular disease
• Ictus
• Aggressive patients