Resistance training with instability is more effective than resistance training in improving spinal inhibitory mechanisms in Parkinson's disease.
Carla Silva-BatistaEugenia Casella Tavares MattosDaniel M CorcosJessica M WilsonCharles J HeckmanHélcio KanegusukuMaria Elisa Pimentel PiemonteMarco Túlio de MelloCláudia ForjazHamilton RoschelValmor TricoliCarlos UgrinowitschPublished in: Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) (2016)
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have motor dysfunction. Spinal inhibitory mechanisms are important for modulating both supraspinal motor commands and sensory feedback at the spinal level. Resistance training with instability was more effective than resistance training in increasing the levels of presynaptic inhibition and disynaptic reciprocal inhibition of lower limb at rest of the patients with PD, reaching the average values of the healthy controls.