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Boxing may improve quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease

Written By : Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Published On 2023-05-03T20:00:37+05:30  |  Updated On 4 May 2023 2:23 PM IST
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When we think of boxing, it's understandable many of us wouldn't associate it with being 'good' for our brains.

Researchers have found in a new research that Boxing can take the fight to Parkinson’s Disease. It can improve quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease.

New research has shown the sport-without an opponent-could be a valuable way for people suffering Parkinson’s Disease (PD) to improve their quality of life.

Also collaborating with Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and the University of Western Australia, ECU researchers had 10 people with early-stage PD perform three one-hour boxing sessions per week, over 15 weeks.

Rather than an opponent, the group did battle against a Fightmaster boxing unit, a commercially available device which has 11 padded punching targets mounted to a stand.

The program had three distinct segments: an introduction to boxing, a high-intensity component and a cognitively challenging segment.

Participants completed two-to-three-minute “rounds” where they were required to strike the various pads in different sequences, followed by no more than two minutes of rest.

Dr Travis Cruickshank from ECU’s Centre for Precision Health said boxing has grown in popularity among those living with PD, despite little evidence supporting its use.

“So, what we did was look really robustly at how feasible a boxing program is for people with PD, which hadn’t been done in the past,” he said.

“We used heart rate monitors throughout the intervention so we could see the cardiovascular load on our participants, we used scales that measured their perceived levels of exertion from both a physical and cognitive standpoint.

“We have a lot of the metrics needed to say it’s safe, well tolerated and that people enjoyed it.”

Big benefits

After the 15-week program, nine of the 10 participants improved their score on the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, a tool used to measure the progression and severity of PD.

The group also reported a reduction in fatigue and improvements in sleep.

Dr Cruickshank said that group boxing has the benefit of by combining many aspects of therapy, such as exercise, cognitive stimulation and socialisation into a single exercise.

“In the past, I might have been working with people with Parkinson’s and we’d have exercises in a gym, then a separate computerised cognitive training program, and another event for the social aspect,” he said.

“With boxing, we can combine all of those and deliver it really quickly, which makes it all more enjoyable and people will stick with it.”

A feasible option

Dr Cruickshank said a key aspect of the study was establishing boxing as a feasible option to be prescribed to people living with early-stage PD.

Despite the high intensity of many of the workouts, participants reported no increase in muscle soreness from the program, nor major injuries, which may be expected for people with PD.

Crucially, this meant that every person completed the 15-week program with almost 97 per cent of training sessions completed.

“In fact, after we finished the study, everyone chose to buy a Fightmaster and have it installed in their home,” Dr Cruickshank said.

“So, in the future programs such as this could be run in people’s homes or in clinics, it could be self-administered, supervised in a clinic or done remotely via telehealth so people in regional areas can still be included.

“We know the camaraderie and positive relationships formed between the members in the study also served as a motivator.

“These social benefits cannot be understated, particularly given the link between socialisation and emotional wellbeing.”

Expanding the fight

Dr Cruickshank said the next step was to trial boxing’s therapeutic effectiveness in a larger group of people living with various stages of PD.

He said he believed it could be effective for other neurological conditions such as Huntington’s Disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke and traumatic brain injury and more.

“Beyond these neurological conditions, people with cancer, may also see benefits, particularly to bone mineral content and muscle mass which is impacted by treatments,” he said.

“The ability to adapt the training to someone’s individual state is really important.

Dr Cruickshank said he hoped boxing programs could soon be rolled out in treating PD in the not-too-distant future.

“We know now it’s safe, well-tolerated and people enjoy it,” he said.

“Once we’ve established the therapeutic effectiveness with larger trials-then it will be ready to be implemented in the community.”

Reference:

David J. Blacker, Raimondo Fazio, Claire Tucak, Phillip Beranek, Connor Pollard, Tegan Shelley, Sanathraj Rajandran, Georgina Holbeche, Mitchell Turner, Travis Cruickshank, First published: 18 April 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/pmrj.12986.

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Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli
Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli

Dr Kamal Kant Kohli-MBBS, DTCD- a chest specialist with more than 30 years of practice and a flair for writing clinical articles, Dr Kamal Kant Kohli joined Medical Dialogues as a Chief Editor of Medical News. Besides writing articles, as an editor, he proofreads and verifies all the medical content published on Medical Dialogues including those coming from journals, studies,medical conferences,guidelines etc. Email: drkohli@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751

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