Background: Self-checked monitoring home exercises are recommended for preventing falls among people with Parkinson’s disease. However, as these home exercises are performed autonomously by patients without professional management, their accuracy and efficiency can be compromised.
Objective: To investigate the effects of providing regular training sessions to patients and caregivers and of patient self-monitoring of exercise performance following the implementation of a self-checked monitoring exercise program for people with Parkinson’s disease.
Design: Randomized Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design.
Methods: We provided regular self-checked monitoring home exercise and general home exercise programs to 30 participants for 12 weeks. Once a month at the first, fifth, and ninth-week sessions, a rehabilitation team attended the Parkinson’s group education. In addition to the subject in the experimental group perform the home exercises program to provide feedback regarding the home exercises program and to carry out a self-monitoring checklist performance for 12 weeks.
Results: The 10 m walk test, functional reach test, and sit to stand test and the modified Barthel index significantly improved in the self-checked monitoring home exercise group.
Conclusion: These results suggest that self-checked home exercise programs, which facilitate safety and consistent performance of exercises at home, are beneficial for people with Parkinson’s disease.

INTRODUCTION
SUBJECTS AND METHODS
    Experimental design
    Subjects
    Interventions
    Outcome measures
    Sample size estimation
    Statistical analysis
RESULTS
    Gait ability
    Balance ability
    Performance of ADLs
DISCUSSION
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

• Chaegil Lim(Department of Physical Therapy, Gachon University) Correspondence