Objective: To evaluate the respiratory problems of Parkinson’s disease and to examine the impact on daily life and mood due to respiratory problems of these patients.

Background: Depending on the severity of functional impairment caused by the disease leads to deterioration in the clinical case and symptoms and depression in daily living activities.Respiratory problem is one of them.

Methods: A total of 20 individuals (8 of them is women) diagnosed with Parkinson’s between 40-80 years of age ; After obtaining demographic information, chest circumference, respiratory pattern, respiratory rate, posture analysis, muscle strength, muscle shortening was assessed. Dyspnea state were assessed by Medical research council (MRC) and the mental state were assessed by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

Results: The result of dispnea scale was found that 45% of patients had moderate dyspnea and 5% of patient had severe dyspnea. Significant relationship was found between PND with deep breathing.%20 of patient had PND with deep breathing and %55 of them had PND with shallow breathing.(p<0.05) Shortness of respiratory muscle in patient with dispnea, was found to be higher than in patient with non dyspnea (p <0.05).Patients that use of accessory respiratory muscles and had increased lumbar lordosis was seen orthopnea (p <0.05). 87.5% of the women had shallow breathing, 58.33% of men had deep breathing and respiratory depth has a significant differences between men and women was found. According to Beck Depression Inventory limits clinical depression in men was found %41.7 and moderate depression in women was found %25 so that levels of depression in men were more serious (p <0.05).there was a significant correlation between pathological type of chest and serratus anterior which is accessory respiratory muscle. We found that %15 patient had pigeon ches, 20% patient of the sunken chest had weak serratus anterior muscle strength. We found that there was a significant relationship between the chin and chest-type head-down tilt (p <0.05).

Conclusions: We think that person with Parkinson’s disease has respiratory problems with different levels ; co-occurrance of the depression can aggravate the respiratory problems.

The abstract has been presented at International Neurology and Rehabilitation Meeting, 4-6, June ,2015.

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